P&W Engine Rupture Stymies Space Operations
Pratt&Whitney and Boeing investigators have determined that the failure of the RL10B rocket engine that ruined the second flight of the Delta III involved an explosive rupture of the engine's combustion chamber, an unprecedented occurrence for the oxygen/hydrogen powerplant critical to the U.S...
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