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Edited NASA image of exhaust plumes/flames from the three rocket engines of the Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the Parker Solar Probe. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Stennis_Space_Center
*Note: I've geotagged all of these pics in this set as being at the entrance, because unless you take a tour starting from the Infinity Science Center, that's as close as you'll get, and it's impossible now for me to figure out where more precisely, in the non-GoogleMapped campus, just where everything was, so that's close enough. :)
Pearlington, Mississippi.
At the Apollo/Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Space Center.
I could have spent an hour taking pictures of those engines.
Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine F-6049
Five F-1 engines were used in the S-IC first stage of each Saturn V, which served as the main launch vehicle of the Apollo program. The F-1 remains the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid-propellant rocket engine ever developed.
This F-1 engine was originally mounted on the first stage for Apollo 16. After the stage suffered an engine fire during a test in 1969, it was removed, refurbished, and assigned as a flight spare for the rockets that would have launched Apollo 18 and 19 before NASA cancelled the missions.
In 2013, NASA pulled the engine out of storage to test fire the gas generator. The test helped familiarize NASA's next generation of propulsion engineers. Nasa is using this knowledge to help develope the Space Launch System.
F-6049 was transferred to the Museum of Flight in March 2017.
Catalog #: 10_0004962
Date: 1950-1959
Title: Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel
Corporation Name: Convair/General Dynamics
Additional Information: Photo Department
Tags: Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel, Photo Department, 1950-1959, Convair/General Dynamics
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive