RD-180 tests set up first Atlas IIIA flight in mid-1999
Hot-fire tests of the new RD-180 rocket engine in Russia and Alabama Wednesday have set the stage for the first flight of an Atlas launch vehicle powered by the big Russian engine in the second quarter of 1999, Lockheed Martin Astronauts reported. In the fourth and final test of an RD-180 fitted...
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