NASA Orion Spaceship Blog

On Monday, July 16, 2007, NASA awarded Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne a contract to build the J-2X engines for the Ares launch vehicles. Through the Constellation program, Ares will launch the next-generation of astronauts aboard Orion.

The Ares I rocket will consist of a single five-segment solid-fueled rocket (for the first stage) and a single liquid-fueled rocket powered by a J-2X engine (for the second stage).

NASA awarded PWR, a company with United Technologies, the cost-plus $1.2 billion contract on a sole-source basis—meaning that no other company was able to meet the contract requirements.  Read more

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