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. Pournelle 
Jerry 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...