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 ...

Dr. Charles Buhler, a veteran scientist with experience in the Space Shuttle, International Space ... eliminating the need ...

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 ...