Four veteran Space Shuttle Main Engines will benchmark the performance of the rookie Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage in the final two critical tests of NASA’s Green Run campaign.
The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and ...
Artemis I, for instance, which took off back in 2022, did so thanks to a SLS powered by four RS-25 engines. All of them had already been flown on the Space Shuttle at some point in the past.
All the equipment for the care and feeding of uprated Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME), adapted for SLS by Aerojet Rocketdyne as the RS-25, is repackaged from the backend of Space Shuttle ...
Reaching Earth’s orbit is a complex, high-stakes engineering challenge, and the Space Shuttle was one of the most advanced ...