Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) is a United States company that designs and produces rocket engines that use liquid propellants. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a division of Pratt & Whitney, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, headquartered in Canoga Park, California. It has additional operations in West Palm Beach, Florida; Huntsville, Alabama; the Kennedy Space Center, Florida; and the Stennis Space Center, Miss...
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) is a United States company that designs and produces rocket engines that use liquid propellants. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a division of Pratt & Whitney, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, headquartered in Canoga Park, California. It has additional operations in West Palm Beach, Florida; Huntsville, Alabama; the Kennedy Space Center, Florida; and the Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.
The company was formed by North American Aviation (NAA). In 1967, NAA and Rocketdyne merged with the Rockwell Corporation to form North American Rockwell, later part of Rockwell International. Decades later, in December 1996, the aerospace entities of Rockwell International were bought by Boeing. In February 2005, Boeing reached an agreement to sell what was by then referred to as Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power to Pratt & Whitney. The transaction was completed on August 2, 2005.
Rocketdyne was formed by NAA in the immediate post-WW II...
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