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... successfully completed the first test of the redesigned Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME). NASA planned to use the redesigned SSME in the first Shuttle mission after the Columbia tragedy ~ the mission that ... amount of time a Space Shuttle requires to reach orbit. Each Space Shuttle has three SSMEs ~ reusable rocket engines capable of generating 400,000 pounds (181,000 kilograms) of thrust. (NASA ...

... future launch vehicles. NASA would compare these engine configurations to the Space Shuttle main engine ( SSME ) for application to new launch vehicles. The contractors would identify candidate engine configurations, compare their ... principal contenders for the STME study were Rockwell's Rocketdyne Div., prime contractor for the SSME ; and Aerojet Technologies and United Technologies 's Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, who conducted component improvement studies ...

... Division of Rockwell International Corp., Canoga Park, Calif., contractors for the Space Shuttle main engine ( SSME ). The amended contract, totaling more than $66 million, would include equipment to build SSME . ( MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC Release 77-37) February 1977 February March 1977 March Mar ...

... 5 minutes and 45 seconds after launch onboard computers shut down Challenger 's center engine ( SSME 1) due to failure of the orbiter's two high-pressure, fuel turbo-pump discharge ... 4,400 lb. of fuel to achieve the higher orbit. In explaining the problem with SSME 1, NASA associate administrator Jesse Moore said the onboard sensors first indicated that the center ...

... ; NY limes, Jan 23/92) J.P. Mitchell, Pratt & Whitney's Space Shuttle Main Engine ( SSME ) Alternate Turbopump Development project manager, reported that a pair of Pratt & Whitney designed high-pressure turbopumps had been tested successfully at 100 percent rated power on a SSME at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. (PR Newswire, Jan 23/92 ...

... . Of course, pretty soon we found that, my gosh, we had the main engines, the SSMEs Space Shuttle Main Engines and the boosters, the solid rocket boosters, and the vehicles too ... while the fluid was flowing, it would essentially blow up an engine, blow up an SSME Space Shuttle Maine Engine . The crew felt very, very strongly that it should be more ...

... . Walter Jaderlund. He was the head of structural testing in my office. He worked the SSMEs Space Shuttle Main Engines and he worked the structural tests of the Orbiter out in ... he kept good tabs on that. I went to a special committee to oversee the SSME and I asked the guy how they were going to qualify the engine. He said ...

... valves—and it starts burning and giving you thrust. Whereas when you start up the SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine , you see all that fire and smoke and all that preburning ... of fuel per second into that engine. All hell breaks loose when you fire an SSME. That's not true when you fire the SPS Service Propulsion System , you just have ...

... , as well as the sun. Satellites 'would continue to be used for earth resources asse SSME nt, weather prediction, and surveys of potential geothermal energy sources. The Federal Aviation Administration would ...

... was a reply to correspondence from members of the Ohio congressional delegation and Cleveland busine SSME n and industrialists to President Ford calling for increased use of Lewis Research Center LeRC ...

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