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June 14: New Rocket Technology Could Cut Mars Travel Time: Vehicle ConceptAn agreement to collaborate on development of an advanced rocket technology that could cut in half the time required to reach Mars, opening the solar system to human exploration in the next decade, has been signed by NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, and MSE Technology Applications Inc., Butte, MT.

 


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June 1: Air-breathing Rocket Engine Technology Achieves Testing Milestone: Air-breathing Rocket Test EngineEngineers developing air-breathing rocket propulsion technology achieved an important milestone in May. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and its industry partner, Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif., this month completed one hour of testing on an air-breathing rocket - or rocket-based, combined cycle - engine at the General Applied Sciences Laboratory (GASL) in Ronkonkoma, NY.

 


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May 23: Major Milestone Reached in X-37 Space Plane Project: X-40A Test VehicleMarking a major milestone in the X-37 project, an 85 percent scale test vehicle of the experimental space plane was delivered to NASA Friday for flight testing.

 


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June 20, 2000

Advanced Space Transportation Program's Presentation to the Program Management Council
Annual Space Transportation Lead Center Program Management Council Review of the Advanced Space Transportation Program conducted at the Marshall Space Flight Center on March 2, 2000.
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The Space Transportation Directorate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center sponsors this web site. The mission of the Space Transportation Directorate at Marshall is to plan, direct, and execute research, technology maturation, advanced design and development, and sustaining engineering for NASA's space transportation systems, including expendable and reusable launch vehicles, heavy lift vehicles, upper stages, in-space transportation systems, and other associated transportation systems and subsystems.


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