NASA's Most Powerful Engine Begins New Round of Testing for Agency's Space Launch System
01.25.13
To help develop the nation’s future heavy-lift rocket, NASA resurrected its most powerful rocket engine ever flown, the F-1, which powered the Saturn V rocket, and test fired its gas generator Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. NASA is building the Space Launch System, a rocket designed to take humans, equipment and experiments beyond low-Earth orbit.
TRT – 00:26
Super(s) –
Erin Betts, Integrated Test Lead, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Chris Protz, Test requestor, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA HQ Contact: Joshua Buck – 202-358-1100
MSFC Center Contact: Kimberly Henry – 256-544-0034
For more info: www.nasa.gov/sls
Cut 1 - Erin Betts, Integrated Test Lead, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
TRT: 00:10 - “Rocket propulsion component design has come a long ways since the sixties, but to go back and see where some of the designs that we use today originated from was fascinating”
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Cut 2 - Chris Protz, Test Requestor, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
TRT”00:16 - “We understand how the gas generator works that was designed in the fifties and sixties how did it operate what are the characteristics of that engine, then we have reduced the risks of understanding how can we then bring it into an advanced booster engine.”
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