About a dozen F-1 engines remain in Huntsville, home of NASA's main propulsion center, and others are located elsewhere. Most are on display; Case said engineers used engine No. F-6049 for the tests because it was the most complete.
"It is really an excellent booster," he said. "The guys in Apollo had it right."
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01/24/2013 5:34:38 PM PST by
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To: Islander7
I was raised in Huntsville and it was great to hear the test firings as a boy. And 45 years later I’ve returned and it’s great to hear ‘em again.
3 posted on
01/24/2013 5:38:53 PM PST by
TomServo
To: Islander7
Now that we’re done wasting our time on Shuttle flights, we can get back to actual space exploration.
At least one guy at NASA understands. I doubt he’s got too much company
To: Islander7
Designed and built at a time when NASA was focused on things like space exploration rather than being a shill for the anthropogenic global warming scam.
5 posted on
01/24/2013 5:39:37 PM PST by
Army Air Corps
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To: Islander7
I’m just wondering if there’s a way to use Earth’s rotation to help leave orbit, without such large booster rockets?
Conceptually speaking, if you could go straight up, while the Earth rotates below, you’d eventually could go into space.
6 posted on
01/24/2013 5:40:43 PM PST by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Islander7
Is that engine powerful enough for Muslim outreach? /s
To: Islander7
This one is in the National Air and Space Museum in WDC. The mirrors around it simulate the presence of the cluster of five of them at the bottom of the Saturn V vehicle.
11 posted on
01/24/2013 5:47:53 PM PST by
ExGeeEye
(It's been over 90 days; time to start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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17 posted on
01/24/2013 6:06:21 PM PST by
donaldo
To: Islander7
This is great news. I had read that ALL the technical plans for the Apollo project were gone.
18 posted on
01/24/2013 6:09:44 PM PST by
Kozak
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To: Islander7
They began work on the F1 in the 1950’s and I believe they had done significant work on a 2 million pound thrust version by the time Apollo was scrapped.
20 posted on
01/24/2013 6:10:16 PM PST by
Moonman62
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To: Islander7
First Law of Rocketry - While the engine is running at no time can the pressure in the expansion chamber ever exceed the out pressure of the main fuel pump.
21 posted on
01/24/2013 6:11:08 PM PST by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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23 posted on
01/24/2013 6:12:11 PM PST by
donaldo
To: Islander7
Kim Jong Un’s program is running circles around Obama’s leadership when it comes to space exploration, lol. The electorate sure know how to pick out “progress”.
27 posted on
01/24/2013 6:21:12 PM PST by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: Islander7
The bell-shaped motor... Motor? Who wrote this?
28 posted on
01/24/2013 6:29:46 PM PST by
Lexinom
To: Islander7
"It is really an excellent booster," he said. "The guys in Apollo had it right."When the rocket goes up
we will win great renown,
"It's an excellent booster,"
said Wernher Von Braun !
31 posted on
01/24/2013 7:02:43 PM PST by
dr_lew
To: Islander7
God I miss what this country once was...
To: Islander7; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Joe 6-pack
If we put some wheels on the unused Saturn V rocket and the Apollo 11 engine and took it to the salt tracks. How fast do you reckon we could go?
To: zot
I thought all of them had been destroyed per Nixon’s order.
41 posted on
01/24/2013 7:39:52 PM PST by
GreyFriar
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46 posted on
01/24/2013 7:59:42 PM PST by
rottndog
('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
To: Islander7
When I was a teenager I remember hearing the Saturn V engine tests from my hometown 50 miles from Huntsville. Those things shook the ground good if you were close. I had the good fortune of seeing a shuttle main engine live test firing in Huntsville a few years back. There is no way to adequately describe that experience with words. I was shell shocked when it was over.
47 posted on
01/24/2013 8:08:37 PM PST by
lwoodham
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