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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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NASA plans to demolish the iconic Saturn V and Shuttle test towers

The skyline of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville is about to change in a way that closes a defining chapter of the Space Age. The towering structures that once shook under the power of ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Next-Gen Rocket Booster Explodes in Test of a Design That May Never Fly

While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new components needed to launch the vehicle toward the Moon. The latest test ...
Ars Technica

With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obstacle that haunted NASA’s space shuttles

STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...