One of the main elements of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS ... SLS upsized the Shuttle elements — the big fuel tanks are now longer, and there are more engines in the bottom of the stage.

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 ...

The shuttle main engine is the most tested large rocket engine in the world. In 1996, a turbine component (displayed here by a NASA scientist ... and on the tank (one). Space Shuttle Main Engines ...

Some 22,500 miles above Earth, a spacecraft filled with thruster fuel will gas up two orbiting Space Force assets. The ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003, a piece of foam the size of a briefcase broke off from the shuttle's external fuel tank and hit ... Yet some NASA officials were skeptical ...

Charles Buhler, a veteran NASA engineer and co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies ... With decades of experience on projects like the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, Buhler ...

NASA's Space Shuttle program, which ran from 1981 to ... two solid rocket boosters, and an external fuel tank, with all components except the tank being reusable. After the programme ended in ...