(MENAFN) NASA's recent tests are a milestone towards the next stage of space exploration and Mars, as it has successfully fired an RS-25 rocket engine for 500 seconds in March-10.
In accordance, it's a fundamental part of the agency's new Space Launch System (SLS), which is targeted at taking humans to nearby asteroids and, after that, the red planet.
NASA and its contractor, AeroJet Rocketdyne, ran many tests on the same engine last year, focused on the controller and trying out diverse operating conditions on the SLS.
Meanwhile, NASA is also working on a test stand similar for the rocket's eventual first flight, which will attach to the core stage, while the agency attempts to fire 4 RS-25s at once.
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