https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/browse?tags=main+engines&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle&output=atom2024-03-28T12:57:30+00:00Omekahttps://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/5973Challenger disaster, many systems were upgraded to return the Space Shuttles to flight. As part of those upgrades, the main engines were redesigned and then tested by a static firing at John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. The Space Shuttle was meant as a reusable alternative to the traditional ballistic rockets used to launch manned spacecraft in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1981 to 2011, when the fleet was retired, five shuttles were flown over 130 times. It was the first space launch system, which was mostly reusable (the shuttles themselves and the solid rocket boosters). Shuttles were launched from Launch Complex 39A and Launch Complex 39B at John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Merritt Island, Florida.]]>2015-11-17T16:59:11+00:00
Dublin Core
Title
Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Test
Alternative Title
Space Shuttle Main Engine Test
Subject
John C. Stennis Space Center
Stennis Space Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)
NASA
Description
After the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, many systems were upgraded to return the Space Shuttles to flight. As part of those upgrades, the main engines were redesigned and then tested by a static firing at John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. The Space Shuttle was meant as a reusable alternative to the traditional ballistic rockets used to launch manned spacecraft in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1981 to 2011, when the fleet was retired, five shuttles were flown over 130 times. It was the first space launch system, which was mostly reusable (the shuttles themselves and the solid rocket boosters). Shuttles were launched from Launch Complex 39A and Launch Complex 39B at John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Merritt Island, Florida.
Source
Original color photographic print: Leonard Pugh Collection.