60K Fastrac Engine Tested at Stennis Space Center (1999)

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This Quick Time movie is of a 60K Bantam Fastrac Engine undergoing tests hosted by NASA?s Stennis Space Center. The Fastrac Engine was an alternative low-cost engine which was developed and tested at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for use in the X-34 future generation launch vehicle program. The X-34 would be launched from a 747 shuttle carrier aircraft. After delivering its payload (booster by an upper stage) to orbit, it would land autonomously on the same runway from which the 747…

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