NASA has installed all four RS-25 engines onto the Artemis II Space Launch System core stage, completing a major assembly milestone for the first crewed lunar mission since the Apollo era. Built at a factory in Canoga Park,

Moeller Aerospace, headquartered in Wixom with its Airfoil Center of Excellence in Harbor Springs, is the sole source manufacturer of all turbomachinery for the liquid oxygen and liquid fuel pumps on the RS-25 engines that power NASA’s Space Launch System rocket.

Thousands of North Alabamians have designed, built and tested rocket components that will eventually return humans to the moon as a part of the Artemis program.

FOR LATER: The 15 remaining RD-25D space shuttle main engines are on the way from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where they will be stored until needed to power the core stage of NASA’s planned heavy-lift ...

SLS (Space Launch System) uses a 50 year old rocket engine design that now costs $145 million each (not including labor and testing) which is over 300 times more expensive than the more powerful SpaceX Raptor 3 engine. It is a flying museum piece that is ...

When Tony Mendez looks at a Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), he sees a highly durable, specialized, complex machine that’s done for more than 20 years exactly what it was designed to do: propel the world’s only reusable winged spaceships. Mendez, an ...

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