Sentences with phrase «rocket testing facility»
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But it's also home to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, a federal «city» of government offices that revolve around the nation's largest rocket - engine test facility.
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SpaceX tested the main core engine of its Falcon Heavy rocket at its facility in McGregor, Texas.
DISCOVER spoke to Burt Rutan about his inspiration for SpaceShipOne, what SpaceShipTwo passengers can expect to get for their money, why the future of spaceflight doesn't belong to NASA — and the aftermath of a recent explosion at one of Rutan's test facilities during a test of rocket motor components that killed three people and severely injured three others.
To find out what happened, astrophysicists at NASA's Ames facility devised an artificial environment full of crushed walnut shells to test the engines and found that the pulsing of the rockets on the Martian surface injected more gas into the soil than expected.
At NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., a sounding rocket is being readied for flight.
In 2017, the Block 5 version of the Merlin rocket engine exploded at a testing facility in Texas, as was noted by Space.com's Mike Wall in his Nov. 2017 article.
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