NASA's newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X, successfully completed its critical design review, NASA announced. The engine passed the milestone at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. That J-2X engine was developed for NASA by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, a unit of United Technologies Corp. [UTX]. The engine is the first element of the Constellation Program -- now developing the next-generation Orion space capsule and Ares rocket -- to pass this design milestone. In the next decade, when manned…
J-2X Rocket Engine Completes Critical Design Review
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