Rocket Renaissance.(Air Force doubling rocket system capability)

From: Airman | Date: August 1, 2001| Author: Dendy IV, Tech. Sgt. John B. | Copyright information

The Air Force is doubling the capability of every U.S. rocket propulsion system -- now

The rocket test produced a tsunami of sound waves, as startling as the 2,000-foot-high steam cloud that hurled itself over the outdoor workshop -- a lone, sun-burnished mountainside on a flat Mojave Desert valley, 100 miles from Los Angeles.

Space industry executives watched the world's newest reusable rocket engine gulp fuel while scientists revved the system up and down. ...

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