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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the left wing. Some shuttle engineers worried ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be ...