A rocket engine that helped launch five space shuttle missions, including the penultimate flight of the program in 2011, was fired again on March 10 in preparation for the first crewed flight of ...

A shuttle-era main engine roared to life in a ground-shaking Mississippi test firing Thursday, the latest in a series of full-duration burns to make sure the upgraded powerplants can handle the higher ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the first time in more than 3 1/2 years, a space shuttle main engine roared to life on Friday ...

Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully test-fired a space shuttle-era engine 10 times in 10 days, demonstrating the rapid turnaround capability critical to the Phantom Express, a reusable ...

One of the shuttle Challenger’s three main engines quit prematurely Monday during the climb to space, but the ship pushed on into a low but safe orbit and NASA said the crew of seven should stay up a ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A main engine computer upgrade developed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will fly on space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-117 mission, targeted for ...

Throughout the Space Shuttle design process, NASA fought a rearguard action to preserve reusability. In 1969, the U.S. civilian space agency sought a fully reusable design with a piloted Booster and a ...

Thirty years ago there was no Internet, laptop computers or CDs; Gerald Ford was president; “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was on TV; and “Jaws” was at the movies. But in South Mississippi, NASA ...

NASA’s top engineers have recommended a test-firing of Discovery’s main engines before the first post-Challenger shuttle flight, a test that will delay the launch for as long as two months, officials ...

A main engine computer upgrade developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will fly on Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-117 mission, targeted for launch June 8. The upgrade is part of NASA's ...

For the first time in more than 3 1/2 years, a space shuttle main engine roared to life on Friday (Jan. 9) in support of NASA's new heavy-lift rocket. The space shuttle main engine (SSME), now renamed ...