>>1454450
Space Shuttle is not a jet, those rocket engines have no intake, jets burn the oxygen in the air, rockets have an oxidizer in the rocket fuel since as you get higher there is no air to burn. The shuttle when landing faces backward, the rockets fire to slow the shuttle down from it's orbit speed, there are no brakes in space. My dad worked for Rocketdyne when they were competing for the SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine.
I lived in the Valley, heard the engine tests, no jets involved.
PS Gas does not burn for energy, gas ignites the air that burns for energy. Which is why you have turbo and super chargers, more air, more combustion.