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What kind of fuel is NASA using for Space shuttles?
What kind of fuel is NASA using for Space shuttles and rockets?
The Space Shuttle uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for the 3 main engines, and a mixture of aluminium powder (fuel) and ammonium perchlorate (oxidizer) (with some additional stuff to bind everything together).
As for other rockets, there is a lot of variations. Some would use kerosene (essentially jet fuel) with liquid oxygen, some other nitrogen tetroxide or hydrogen peroxide as oxydizer and hydrazine as fuel.
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