A smaller booster, made of a single solid rocket and a single liquid-fueled engine, would then launch the four-person crew in the command module.
McGovern's savings in strategic nuclear weapons would come mainly from phasing out the less versatile liquid-fueled Titan ICBM and reducing the strategic bombing forceon the .
The blast-off was swift and sure; there was none of that heart-stopping hover of other tests when liquid-fueled monsters seemed to balance in uncertain equilibrium before they .
Aerospace Merger Means Big Savings for U.S. Government, Company Says PARIS — Executives with Aerojet Rocketdyne, in its first week since forming from the merger of two rocket propulsion companies, said Tuesday (June 18) the new firm would save the U.S. government $1 billion over a decade and be responsive to the demands of customers, despite its dominance in the market for liquid-fueled rocket engines in the United States.
June 24, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News