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NASA tests vintage Apollo 11 rocket engine for ideas for new US missions
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| Jan 24, 2013
| AP
Posted on 01/24/2013 5:34:29 PM PST by Islander7
A vintage rocket engine built to blast the first U.S. lunar mission into Earth's orbit more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern landscape.
The engine, known to NASA engineers as No. F-6049, was supposed to help propel Apollo 11 into orbit in 1969, when NASA sent Neil Armstrong and two other astronauts to the moon for the first time.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; apollo; f1; f1b; moonlandings; nasa; prattwhitney; pwr; pyrios; rocket; rocketdyne; saturnv; spaceexploration; wernervonbraun
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To: steve86
I know....I know.....pick me.....pick me....
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(Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
To: Charles Martel
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