TWELVE million horsepower — what a ride. This is the engine that may take us to Mars, and it’s just been fired up for the first time at a NASA testing facility.
The RS-25 engine was fired up at the Stennis Space Centre in Mississippi. It burned for nine minutes, chewing through nine swimming pools worth of fuel.
“It is the most complicated rocket engine out there on the market, but that’s because it’s the Ferrari of rocket engines,” NASA propulsion engineer Kathryn Crowe said.
The RS-25 engine was fired up at the Stennis Space Centre in Mississippi. It burned for nine minutes, chewing through nine swimming pools worth of fuel.
“It is the most complicated rocket engine out there on the market, but that’s because it’s the Ferrari of rocket engines,” NASA propulsion engineer Kathryn Crowe said.
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