NASA Successfully Test Fires Mars Mega Rocket Engine with Modernized 'Brain' Controller

NASA STENNIS SPACE CENTER, MISS - NASA engineers successfully carried out a key developmental test firing of an RS-25 rocket engine along with its modernized 'brain' controller at the Stennis Space Center on Thursday, Aug. 18, as part of the ongoing huge development effort coordinating the agency's SLS Mars mega rocket slated for its maiden blastoff by late 2018. "Today's test was very successful," Steve Wofford, manager of the SLS Liquid Engines Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in ...