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Article: EDWARDS REBUILDS TEST STATION\Rocket lab standing by to catch ride on space-business upswing.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- March 10, 1996
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Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer
Much of Col. Robert Karner's attention these days is focused on a concrete-and-steel rocket test stand on Leuhman Ridge idled since the end of the Apollo moon mission program.
Mothballed since the early 1970s, test stand 1-A is being refurbished at a cost of $6.7 million to accommodate tests of a new generation of rocket engines.
Officials at Phillips Laboratory's Propulsion Directorate - more commonly known as the rocket lab - hope to complete the project this fall, allowing contractors to test large rocket engines being considered for a program in 1997.
The engine program, called the Evolved ...