The Shuttle each had three Main Engines that were fired up on the words “Go at Throttle Up” after the booster engines had been exhausted and discarded. These remarkably complex machines, which are profiled in an extensive photographic post below (scan down and root around), have 50,000 parts and in 135 flights never failed. With [...]
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Main Engine, care & feeding: The Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility (SSMEPF)
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When a Space Shuttle landed it was immediately towed back to one of three Orbiter Processing Facilities (known as OPF-1, OPF-2 and OPF-3). Each OPF served as a hangar for one shuttle, but also as a faciklity where the shuttle received a complete post flight inspection that included replacement of tiles, parts and fluids. The [...]
