Space shuttle and Rocketdyne

It built rocket engines mighty enough to blast Apollo skyward and beat the Soviets to the moon.Dana Barftholomew in the Daily News.

But when Canoga Park-based Rocketdyne won a long-shot bid 40 years ago to help launch a re-useable NASA space shuttle, it would enter one of the greatest high-tech races ever.

For its space shuttle main engine (SSME) would not only power the swiftest winged hot rod but become an uncompromising engineering wonder.