From: utzoo!decvax!cca!POURNE@MIT-MC@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.space Title: Specific Impulse of SSMEs Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1452 Posted: Thu May 13 01:35:16 1982 Received: Fri May 14 03:38:20 1982 From: Jerry E. PournelleJerry Kidd, who got a medal for his work on SSME, told me as we watched the first Shuttle landing out at Edwards that the engine was developing ~100 horsepower/lb. Which is a impressive number...