The Soviet shuttle’s launch system – ‘Energia’ – looked similar, but could not have been more different. Instead of two strap-on solid fuel boosters, this system used four boosters ...

The stage is the ground-started sustainer lifted by two large Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) for the first two minutes of launch. The Main Propulsion System is designed around the Space Shuttle Main ...

The shuttle rode out to the launch pad on a bare ... but its primary purpose will be to host the gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, a Saturn-V-sized monster that will send American ...

Critics have often referred to the program as the “Senate Launch System”, as they believe the Shuttle-derived concept was conceived primarily as a way to make sure the manufacturing facilities ...

Additionally, the Launch Abort System (LAS) jettison motors are also ... Aerojet Rocketdyne continues to prepare the final eight Shuttle-era RS-25 engines for their use on the Artemis III and ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...