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Also known as in-space propulsion

method used to accelerate spacecraft

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A remote camera captures a close-up view of an RS-25 during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. Bipropellant rocket engines of the Apollo Lunar Module reaction control system (RCS)

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