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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s Space Shuttle Main Engines Deliver Final Components of Japanese Experiment Module to International Space Station

Three Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) successfully powered the launch of the final components of the Japanese Experiment Module aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on Mission ...
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Brand-New Space Shuttle Engine Fired Up in Mississippi in First Full Duration Test

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...
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This Is the First Brand-New Space Shuttle Engine in Years, Not Meant for the Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle was and forever will be a very special vehicle in the history of space exploration. Over the course of three decades starting in 1981, the small fleet of spaceplanes took to the sky ...
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Space Shuttle Engines: Free to a Good Home

Now that the Space Shuttle missions are ending, NASA is cleaning house. While complete shuttles are for sale at 50 percent off "retail," the deal of the century must be the free engines. These spare ...
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Rocket Engines That Flew 22 Space Shuttle Missions Are Ready for NASA’s Next Moon Mission

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 engines, recently passed a critical milestone that put the integrated system to ...