SLS shuttle engine shuts down early during engine test
An repurposed shuttle engine intended for use in NASA’s SLS rocket shut down early during engine test today.
The report provides no further information. However, if there is a problem with these engines it will not be good for SLS’s overall schedule, which continues to drag out endlessly.
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An repurposed shuttle engine intended for use in NASA’s SLS rocket shut down early during engine test today.
The report provides no further information. However, if there is a problem with these engines it will not be good for SLS’s overall schedule, which continues to drag out endlessly.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The engines are a lifetime limiting factor for SLS. Who is supposed to be working on the replacements, Aerojet Rocketdyne? Good news is they have plenty of time. Bad news is that we likely wont see one before it is needed. It really seems like they could get it done sooner if they wanted but why bother?
Why does this report not surprise me?
There’s a schedule?
Problem? That’s not a problem, it’s a project lifetime enhancer.
Musk might actually be on Mars before this thing ever leaves the pad.
I don’t think this is that big of a deal.
Its expected and planned for.