NASA Deputy Administrator Garver Tours Blue Origin – Announces Commercial Space Firm’s April Engine Testing At NASA Stennis
“Garver also announced Blue Origin has delivered its BE-3 engine thrust chamber assembly — the engine’s combustion chamber and nozzle — to NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where testing will begin in April 2012. The company is developing a reusable launch vehicle, designed to take off and land vertically, and an escape system for its crewed spacecraft. Testing will take place on the center’s E-1 Test Stand.”
