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“Outer Space Pacemaker
Tomorrow’s rocket engine is as big as today’s spacecraft: The 1.5-million-pound-thrust M-1 rocket engine being developed for NASA’s Lewis Research Center in Cleveland is one-third its final length and already is nearly as large as the two-man Gemini spacecraft. The full M-1 engine, being made by Aerojet-General Corp.’s Liquid Rocket Operations, will be 17 feet in diameter and 26 feet long. The Gemini spacecraft has a maximum diameter of 7 ½ feet and is 19 feet long.”
Also:
“The two-man Gemini spacecraft is displayed next to the upper part of an M-1 engine. The Gemini would have fit within the engine bell of a completed engine.”
At/from:
www.thespacereview.com/article/4506/1
To include the image:
www.thespacereview.com/archive/4506g.jpg
Both above credit: “The Space Review” website
Additional information:
forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=58031.0
Credit: NASASpaceFlight.com forum/website
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aerojet-general-m-1-rock...
Credit: SECRET PROJECTS website
Yet again, the amazing resolution of these vintage photographs, further enabled by my considerate & conscientious 1200-dpi scans, reveals & resolves a sign/placard in the background, toward the upper left, bearing "TITAN I ENGINE ASSEMBLY AREA".
Therefore, the photograph likely having been taken ca. 1964 at the latest (based on the stamped date on the verso), at Aerojet-General's Rancho Cordova (Sacramento), CA facility/plant.
Further value-added reading:
amp.sacbee.com/news/business/article147280324.html
Credit: “The Sacramento Bee” online website
www.comstocksmag.com/article/back-story-rocket-company-ro...
Credit: “Comstock’s Magazine” website
www.l3harris.com/aerojet-rocketdyne-history
Credit: L3 Harris website
a+_v_bw_o_n (C-73274)
“Outer Space Pacemaker
Tomorrow’s rocket engine is as big as today’s spacecraft: The 1.5-million-pound-thrust M-1 rocket engine being developed for NASA’s Lewis Research Center in Cleveland is one-third its final length and already is nearly as large as the two-man Gemini spacecraft. The full M-1 engine, being made by Aerojet-General Corp.’s Liquid Rocket Operations, will be 17 feet in diameter and 26 feet long. The Gemini spacecraft has a maximum diameter of 7 ½ feet and is 19 feet long.”
Also:
“The two-man Gemini spacecraft is displayed next to the upper part of an M-1 engine. The Gemini would have fit within the engine bell of a completed engine.”
At/from:
www.thespacereview.com/article/4506/1
To include the image:
www.thespacereview.com/archive/4506g.jpg
Both above credit: “The Space Review” website
Additional information:
forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=58031.0
Credit: NASASpaceFlight.com forum/website
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aerojet-general-m-1-rock...
Credit: SECRET PROJECTS website
Yet again, the amazing resolution of these vintage photographs, further enabled by my considerate & conscientious 1200-dpi scans, reveals & resolves a sign/placard in the background, toward the upper left, bearing "TITAN I ENGINE ASSEMBLY AREA".
Therefore, the photograph likely having been taken ca. 1964 at the latest (based on the stamped date on the verso), at Aerojet-General's Rancho Cordova (Sacramento), CA facility/plant.
Further value-added reading:
amp.sacbee.com/news/business/article147280324.html
Credit: “The Sacramento Bee” online website
www.comstocksmag.com/article/back-story-rocket-company-ro...
Credit: “Comstock’s Magazine” website
www.l3harris.com/aerojet-rocketdyne-history
Credit: L3 Harris website