The next-generation engine that will help carry humans deeper into space than ever is back, bigger and better. The J-2X engine is currently on the A-2 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in ...

WASHINGTON -- The next-generation engine that will help carry humans deeper into space than ever is back, bigger and better. The J-2X engine is currently on the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space ...

Technicians lower a complete J-2X engine into position for a test-firing at NASA's Stennis Space Center in 2013. NASA announced in October that it will idle the J-2X development program after testing ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Reporters are invited to NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Wednesday, Nov. 9 to view a test firing of the J-2X rocket engine, a key component of NASA’s Space ...

J-2X Test Firing, Credit: NASA For those of you that think that the US manned space program is on its way out, I have news for you! NASA recently conducted a successful 499.97-second firing of its ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Mississippi -- The J-2X rocket engine that will eventually propel astronauts into deep space was successfully fired for a 500-second test at Stennis Space Center on Wednesday. Ronald ...

Sea-level testing of a Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) J-2X engine’s turbomachinery begins at NASA Stennis Space Center’s A-1 test stand this month as the US space agency continues detailed design ...

The powerpack assembly for the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) J-2X engine has completed its year of testing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The engine is set to provide the Earth ...

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - Wednesday's successful full-duration test of NASA's new rocket engine is the latest evidence the space agency can meet its goal of launching a new heavy-lift rocket in ...

NASA’s next-generation J-2X rocket engine is ready for a second phase of testing, taking it one step closer to powers the space agencies SRS deep-space rocket in 2017. NASA’s next-generation J-2X ...

NASA has taken another step toward human exploration of new destinations in the solar system. At the agency's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, engineers conducted the final test-firing of the J-2X ...