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Thrust chambers

Goddard rocket thrust chambers; Roswell Museum and Art Center.

 

From left:

 

1) Thrust chamber (with ceramic lining and liquid oxygen pressure generating jacket), 1926-1927

 

2) Thrust chamber (with porous walls for admitting liquid oxygen), 1930

 

3) Thrust chamber (with cooling via a tangential gasoline curtain), 1930

 

4) Thrust chamber (with multiple gasoline and oxygen injectors), 1930

 

5) Thrust chamber (unfinished, with regenerative liquid oxygen cooling jacket), 1944

 

6) Thrust chamber (with liquid nitrogen pressure generating jacket), 1932

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Uploaded on December 28, 2007
Taken on December 26, 2007