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To: Yo-Yo

SRB are simple steel tubes, filled with rubber to burn out a hole in the back.

These are true rocket engines (very, very high-speed, super-small clearance turbo-pumps at many tens of thousands of rpm pump cryogenic fuels and liquids, gyro’s, radio, controls, hydraulics .... You CAN’T land that in salt water.


22 posted on 04/15/2015 5:59:13 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Better fire up that 3-D printer. We’re gonna need another one.


26 posted on 04/15/2015 6:06:18 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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