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To: Dan Evans
Unless it's a solid fuel rocket -- which is called a rocket motor.

This is true- to people who aren't engineers, and don't understand the difference.

82 posted on 12/16/2003 9:18:18 PM PST by Capitalist Eric (Noise proves nothing. Often the hen who merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.)
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To: Capitalist Eric

This is true- to people who aren't engineers, and don't understand the difference.

No, that's what rocket engineers call them, motors:

ABSTRACT:

The Space Shuttle solid rocket motor case assembly joints are sealed using conventional O-ring seals. The 5500+°F combustion gases are kept a safe distance away from the seals by thick layers of insulation. Special joint-fill compounds are used to fill the joints in the insulationto prevent a direct flowpath to the seals. On a number of occasions, NASA has observed in several of the rocket nozzle assembly...

87 posted on 12/16/2003 10:38:07 PM PST by Dan Evans
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