JF Mezei wrote:

On 2016-09-01 21:08, Fred J. McCall wrote:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016...25-production/

Thanks for update. Last I had read, NASA was still mulling on whether to
make serious updates to RS25 or just do the minor sensor/software ones
it had done already. Looks like they chose the later.

I was unaware that NASA had gone as far as getting 1 billion bucks to
give to Rocketdyne to think about restarting production.

Does Rocketdyne actually have the go ahead to produce those 6 engines?
or will that be a separate contract ?


What does the story say?

No, they do not have a contract to actually produce engines. There
are provisions in the current contract to allow it to be extended
(with more money, presumably) to produce 6 engines.

In other words, what's going on is precisely what I originally said.
They're tooling up to produce engines.


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