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Six of these engines power the Saturn 5 launch vehicle 5 on the SII stage and 1 on the S IVB. Propellants are LH2 and Lo2.
PictionID:53760012 - Catalog:14_031818 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Booster Thrust Chamber; B-1 Injector Plate Date: 12/06/1957 - Filename:14_031818.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
F-1 engine thrust chamber assembly line, for the C-5 Advanced Saturn moon rocket. Manufactured by Rocketdyne, a division of North American Aviation Inc.
Excellent F-1 reading:
www.thespacereview.com/article/3724/1
Credit: The Space Review website
PictionID:53763256 - Catalog:14_032060 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Reworking Missile 1B at Site S-2; Perforated Plate Side Date: 07/07/1958 - Filename:14_032060.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:53766453 - Catalog:14_031610 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Series D Fuel Injector; B-1 Thust Chamber Date: 03/17/1960 - Filename:14_031610.TIF - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The last flight Saturn V S-IC/first stage (S-IC-13), is rolled out from the Michoud Assembly Facility, July 1972.
PictionID:55544598 - Catalog:14_036660 - Title:Atls 42D Details: AIG Platform Cage; Installing in Pod on Missile 42D Date: 10/20/1959 - Filename:14_036660.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Rocketdyne technicians tend to a Thor engine, ca. 1959(?). Looks to be some sort of test stand. Possibly being readied for a static firing? Engine identification, to me, especially earlier engines, is confusing. With that said, I'm appropriating the unbeatable Heroic Relics website's well-worded (as always) summation of this particular engine:
"There doesn't appear to be much agreement as to what to call the Thor engine, either (although, to be fair, the Thor had a long life and was upgraded several times). Although the occasional source calls it an S-3D (i.e., the same as the Jupiter engine) and the Air Force refers to both the Jupiter and Thor engines as the LR-79, I've also seen the Thor engine referred to as simply the S-3, the S-3E, various engines in the MB series (most commonly MB-3), and the YLR79-NA-13. I've also seen the engine, along with two LR-101 verniers, designated as the "LV-2A"."
At:
heroicrelics.org/info/s-3d/s-3d-overview.html
Credit: Mike Jetzer/heroicrelics.org
See what I mean?
See also:
www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/Space_Engines/Rocketdyne_Engin...
Credit: Alternate Wars website
The rocket boosters of stage two of the Saturn V rocket at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Space Center.
J-2 engine thrust chamber assembly line, used in the upper stages of both the Saturn IB & Saturn V launch vehicles. Manufactured by Rocketdyne, a division of North American Aviation Inc.
I am going to post this as is for now, Iteration 1. Besides USPTO issued patent on the tanks last week. What is that? SS1, Single Stage to orbit Smallsat Launches to LEO. Orbital debris removal, satellite servicing. etc. Eliminating rockets, forever.
Launch cost estimates for 200 LBS? $50,000 USD... Correct. How? Slows it's itself down to 8,000 mph before re-entry which results in very little wear on the aircraft along with very high thermal resistance. It does not use liquid fuels, and unlike the other SSTO's I have designed and ready to be built, this is not a scramjet. This does not use rocket boosters. Takes off from a runway under its own power.. hence SSTO
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PictionID:53759964 - Catalog:14_031814 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Booster Engine Null Jig Fixture Main Engine; Spider and Proactor Installation Date: 05/27/1957 - Filename:14_031814.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The first stage of the Saturn V rocket used five F-1 engines. Each engine weighs about 9 tons and produces 1.5 million pounds of thrust.
A gas generator would drive the turbine at 5,500 RPM. This would power the oxidizer and fuel pumps, supplying 24,811 gallons of liquid oxygen and 15,471 gallons of fuel (RP-1 kerosene) per minute. The relatively "cool" exhaust from the turbine would flow through the exhaust manifold and be used to protect the nozzle extension from the 5800 degree (F) exhaust gasses.
This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. This is an HD transfer from the 16mm original. Even more excellent footage is available on our DVDs at our website at www.spacecraftfilms.com
The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time. Narration is provided by Mark Gray (me), Executive Producer for Spacecraft Films.
Three RS-25 engines dominate the rear of Space Shuttle Discovery at the Air & Space Museum in Chantilly, VA. The titanium alloy reusable engines were independent of the orbiter vehicle and would be removed and replaced in between flights. The RS-25 is a staged-combustion cycle cryogenic engine that used liquid oxygen and hydrogen and had a higher chamber pressure than any previous liquid rocket. The nozzles are cooled by thousands of interior lines carrying liquid hydrogen and is thermally protected by insulative and ablative materials.
This is S-IVB-514, a third stage rocket booster for a Saturn V rocket, that was never used.
On display at the Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida.
The five J-2 engines of the ground-test/battleship(?) Saturn V second (S-II) stage, are checked by NASA/Rocketdyne(?) technicians at the Santa Susana Test Facility (SSTF), July 1965. Possibly in preparation for the five-engine cluster hot-fire test the following month? If so, this would be the Coca I Test Stand.
See figure 245:
history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/part-6.htm
Also:
mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=304
EXCELLENT highly informative reading regarding the SSTF and its history:
www.militarymuseum.org/NASA_Historic_Resources_Survey_200...
ssfl.msfc.nasa.gov/files/documents/factsheets/Space_Histo...
www.boeing.com/principles/environment/santa-susana/extrao...
PictionID:53814768 - Catalog:14_031397 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: MA-3 Sustainer Engine ; Left Side Looking Aft Date: 06/23/1959 - Filename:14_031397.tif - - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:53761114 - Catalog:14_031897 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Plant 71; Unloading MA-3 Engines Date: 10/12/1961 - Filename:14_031897.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
I bought this visor on Ebay yesterday. The visor on my 1950 Oldsmobile is the same, however, the chrome is in bad condition. This visor will save me from having to have mine repaired. I only need to re-paint this one.
The Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25, otherwise known as the Space Shuttle main engine (SSME), is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine that was used on NASA's Space Shuttle and is planned to be used on its successor, the Space Launch System. Designed and manufactured in the United States by Rocketdyne (later known as Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Aerojet Rocketdyne), the RS-25 burns cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants, with each engine producing 1,859 kN (418,000 lbf) of thrust at liftoff. Although the RS-25 can trace its heritage back to the 1960s, concerted development of the engine began in the 1970s, with the first flight, STS-1, occurring on April 12, 1981. The RS-25 has undergone several upgrades over its operational history to improve the engine's reliability, safety, and maintenance load. Subsequently, the RS-25D is the most efficient liquid fuel rocket engine currently in use.
Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center and a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum owned and operated by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation. The center opened in 1992 and hosts more than 1 million visitors annually in its 250,000-square-foot educational complex with over 400 space artifacts, permanent and traveling exhibits, attractions, live shows and theaters dedicated to preserving the history of America's human spaceflight program.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in 1962 and the 1,620-acre facility officially opened for business in September 1963. The center is home to NASA's astronaut corps, and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It has become popularly known for its flight control function, identified as "Mission Control" during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, and Space Shuttle program flights. It is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the Moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored.
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