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... :''' How closely did you work with McDonnell and Rocketdyne? '''Chaffee:''' Very close. Not so much with McDonnell. They were the Gemini prime contractor. But Rocketdyne was their reaction control system, subsystem, vendor ... go on this trip, but Henry Pohl went out to Rocketdyne for a late program review late in the development program. Rocketdyne claimed that they had solved this problem of burning a ...

... Shuttle 's main engine during the ensuing five years. Under the terms of the contract, Rocketdyne was to provide flight and test engineering; engine refurbishment; and manufacture, assembly, test, and delivery of three additional Space Shuttle main engines. The contract also required Rocketdyne to provide engineering support for NASA's main engine facilities at NASA's KSC and ...

... contract had shown "as much as $5 million ... was diverted to underwrite crucial research on Rocketdyne's winning design in the $500 million space shuttle main engine contract awarded Sept. 1 ... NASA's Source Selection Board, the group which evaluated the space shuttle designs submitted by Rocketdyne, Pratt & Whitney and Aerojet General." NASA Assistant Administrator for Industry Affairs and Technology Utilization Daniel ...

... work that had begun in June 2006 under a preliminary letter contract with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne , extending the performance period through December 2012. The J-2X was an evolved version of ... to Jeffrey M. Hanley, Manager of NASA’s Constellation Program , NASA had selected Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne without competitive bidding because the company was the only manufacturer that could meet the Ares ...

... meeting for its funded Space Act Agreement during CCDev2. "Boeing and its contractor, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, continue to make good progress on milestones supporting the development of their commercial crew transportation ... , who supports Boeing's program. Under its fixed-price contract with Boeing, Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne is combining its Attitude Control Propulsion System thrusters from heritage spaceflight programs, Bantam abort engine ...

... the CSM and lunar module. On Gemini, we had Rocketdyne making the engines and they wanted to go to somebody else when Rocketdyne’s price got—originally it was 30 million. It ... all the way around this circle. So Rocketdyne demonstrated that way of tooling it. So now they wanted to quit Marquardt and have Rocketdyne build these engines after all this development work ...

... why. In one of the few exceptions to the ban, in 1968 Stan Gunn at Rocketdyne studied replacing the J-2 third stage of the Saturn V with a first generation ... and fourth generation system. No real new R&D has to be done; in fact, Rocketdyne had to derate one of its turbopumps for Pewee; no problems exist for the nozzle ... short flight to LEO, increased speed is not desirable but increased payload is. Recall the Rocketdyne Saturn-Nuclear study is mentioned earlier. For missions starting in LEO, tradeoffs must be made ...

... Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Glenn manufactured the test engine's core ionization chamber. Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, Calif., designed and built the ion acceleration assembly. The 7-kilowatt class thruster ... more than 22,000 (10,000 kilograms) of conventional rocket propellant for comparable applications. Aerojet Rocketdyne fully supports NASA's vision to develop high power solar electric propulsion for future exploration ...

... Saturn V launch vehicles from NASA MSFC. Additional funding of $3.6 million went to Rocketdyne to equip their plant for production of J-2 engines and for providing static test ... several separate NASA engine technology contracts at Pratt & Whitney with inputs from Aerojet-General Corp., Rocketdyne Div. of North American Aviation , and General Electric Co. ''(M&R, 7/20/64, 8 ...

Feasibility of F-1 engine F-1 rocket engine developing a million pounds of thrust in a single chamber established at Rocketdyne . Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation , Inc. ( NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION NAA ), established the feasibility of a million-pound-thrust liquid-fueled rocket engine for the U.S. Air Force. '' Rocketdyne Skywriter, May 20, 1960, p. 1.''

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