Pratt&Whitney sees fix returning RL-10 to flight status soon

Engineers at Pratt&Whitney believe they have found a way to inspect and strengthen combustion chambers on the company's venerable RL-10 rocket engines that could clear at least some of the engines for flight before the end of the month. A company spokesman said Friday P&W engineers had already...

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