Posted on 01/11/2018 3:47:03 PM PST by Morgana
***WATCH LIVE*** ULA Delta IV NROL-47 Rocket Launch
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Scrubbed for today, try again in 24 hours.
Scrubbed, will try again in 24 hours. We’ll watch the schedule and maybe drive up and watch live from a mountain top.
Well that was a waste of time.
Just now got scrubbed and re-set for tomorrow around this time.
Twenty four hour delay.
Oh, well.
The other I cannot remember which Apollo it was, but I was in St. Augustine, 120 miles north. From that distance you couldn't see the rocket itself, but you could see the huge plume of fire that propelled it to the heavens.
Much later in life I was visiting relatives in Florida and "saw" a night launch of a satellite, I don't remember if it was a Delta or an Atlas, and it was puny compared to the Apollos.
May have a copy of an incredible video inside a Saturn fuel tank during a launch. The rate all the fuel dropped was insane. Then the stage shuts off and the remaining fuel sloshes up to the camera.
What’d I miss?!!!!!!
I can never read too much about the the Saturn V. When NASA still had huevos.
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Those huevos belonged to Von Braun. And if it weren’t for Soviet competition, he never would have gotten the approval for his Moon rocket.
Yea I know. Why do they always do that?
They ain't shooting of cheap Chinese skyrockets with a grasshopper tied to the end, but you knew that.
1300 Hrs. today, FRIDAY
The biggest problem Mueller still faced was Apollo's slipping schedule and huge cost overruns. He had always thought the only way to resolve this, and achieve a lunar landing before 1970, was to reduce the number of test flights. Mueller wanted to use his "all-up testing" concept with each flight using the full number of live stages. This approach had been used successfully on the Titan II and Minuteman programs but violated von Braun's engineering concepts. The von Braun test plan called for the first live test to use the Saturn's first stage with dummy upper stages. If the first stage worked correctly then the first two stages would be live with a dummy third stage and so on, with at least ten test flights before a manned version was put into low earth orbit.The Saturn V program manager Arthur Rudolph cornered Mueller with scale models of Saturn and Minuteman. The Saturn dwarfed the Minuteman but Mueller replied, "So what?"
Eventually von Braun and the others were won over. As von Braun stated: "It sounded reckless, but George Mueller's reasoning was impeccable. Water ballast in lieu of a second and third stage would require much less tank volume than liquid-hydrogen-fuelled stages, so that a rocket tested with only a live first stage would be much shorter than the final configuration. Its aerodynamic shape and its body dynamics would thus not be representative. Filling the ballast tanks with liquid hydrogen? Fine, but then why not burn it as a bonus experiment? And so the arguments went on until George in the end prevailed."[8]
Mueller's concept of all-up testing worked. The first two unmanned flights of the Saturn V were successful (the second less so), then the third Saturn V put Frank Borman's Apollo 8 crew in orbit round the Moon on Christmas 1968, and the sixth Saturn V carried Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 to the first lunar landing.
In an interview Mueller acknowledged what would have happened if all-up testing had failed, "The whole Apollo program and my reputation would have gone down the drain".[9]
Launch today?
don’t know had to take dog to vet
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