Core Stage that makes it more than just a big fuel tank is the Main Propulsion System (MPS). All the equipment for the care and feeding of uprated Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME), adapted for ...

You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program.

The station’s core was a modified Saturn V third stage, the S-IVB; McDonnell Douglas transformed its hydrogen fuel tank into an orbital ... A former space shuttle mission specialist, he helped ...

Explore how NASA's successful application of a thermal protection system to the Space Launch System rocket's liquid hydrogen ...

The mint set noon EDT on Thursday (May 15) as its T-0 for the launch of Florida's dollar celebrating the retired spacecraft.

which the space agency began phasing out in 2000. NASA’s preflight press information stated the shuttle was using one of the newer super-lightweight fuel tanks. Harry Wadsworth, a spokesman for ...

Propellant grain was modified after 2003 to avoid cracks in the fuel when the boosters are ... or in the orbiter (five), and on the tank (one). Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995, the power ...

NASA completed another step to ready its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the Artemis III mission as crews at the ...

Teams at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans move a liquid hydrogen tank for the agency's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket into the ...