RL10 Engine Makes Human Spaceflight Debut
Helped Power the Atlas V Ride to Orbit for Starliner
The successful launch of Boeing’s crew-carrying Starliner spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test marks the first time an RL10 rocket engine, built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company, has been used to launch astronauts into space.
“A similar model of the RL10 engines that hel…
