P&W Rocketdyne to design, develop, test Ares engines for new NASA spaceships
On Monday, July 16, 2007, NASA awarded Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne a contract to build the J-2X engines for the Ares launch vehicles. Through the Constellation program, Ares will... Full story »
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