Tight Budgets Slow Exploration Development

Credit: International Aeronautical Federation
The upper-stage J-2X engine, once considered the pacing item for the next U.S. human-rated rocket, will be mothballed after development testing wraps up next year because it will not push humans toward Mars for years. Conceived as a way to use Apollo-era technology to hasten development of a...

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