The Motley Fool By Rich Smith - Jun 12, 2022
An alliance with Aerojet Rocketdyne is the most logical solution.America's space news has been pretty good of late, with SpaceX recently completing its fourth official "Crew" mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and Boeing succeeding with an uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft to the same destination.
But not all the news is good.
While SpaceX is clearly leading the space race right now, and Boeing is at least back in the race, one other major space company has hit a hiccup. Northrop Grumman (NOC 0.19%), along with SpaceX, is responsible for keeping ISS supplied with consumables -- and it is running short of rockets.
From Russia, with rocketsMore precisely, Northrop Grumman is running short of both RD-181 rocket engines, which it buys from NPO Energomash in Russia, and Antares first-stage rockets (which incorporate two RD-181 engines per stage) that it buys from Yuzhmash in Ukraine.
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