15 Facts About Rocketdyne

Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los Angeles, in southern California.

Rocketdyne Division was founded by North American Aviation in 1955, and was later part of Rockwell International and Boeing .

Rocketdyne became the major supplier for NASA's development efforts, supplying all of the major engines for the Saturn rocket, and potentially, the huge Nova rocket designs.

Rocketdyne maintained division headquarters and rocket engine manufacturing facilities at Canoga Park from 1955 until 2014.

Rocketdyne sought a location for a manufacturing plant nearby the Simi Hills testing site.

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Rocketdyne's success resulted in the addition of buildings within a growing footprint.

In 1960, Rocketdyne opened a headquarters building at the southeast corner of Victory Boulevard and Canoga Avenue.

In 1973, Rocketdyne repurchased the Air Force Plant No 56 property thereby ending the government designation.

Rocketdyne played a key role in the United States space program and the development of propulsion systems.

Aerojet Rocketdyne moved their office and manufacturing operations to the DeSoto campus in 2014.

In 1958, Phillips and Rocketdyne entered a partnership to form Astrodyne Incorporated.

In 1959, Rocketdyne purchased full ownership of the company and renamed it Solid Propulsion Operations .

The purchase caused Rocketdyne to invest in facilities and research at McGregor towards diversification into other propellant types and rockets engines.

Notably, Rocketdyne installed a facility capable of testing engines having up to three million pounds of thrust.

Rocketdyne transferred operation of the McGregor plant to Hercules Inc in 1978.