Posted on 07/19/2013 4:13:18 PM PDT by servo1969
Seeing the tail nozzle of the SAT V at the Smithsonian, or walking under the entire intact rocket at the Kennedy Space center fills me with awe.
Those were the days when America had “The Right Stuff.”
FYI: The Russian space comms did not have a hum either ...
Yes, they had big problems with combustion stability. They solved it by situating some copper baffles on the ejector plate. The article below has a great photo of those baffles. The Apollo Saturn V was a stunning achievement. It’s hard to imagine something as big as a US Navy destroyer being hurled into orbit (but only after stages 2 and 3 fired). Those F-1s burned for only 2&1/2 minutes and accelerated that mass from o - 6,000 mph (Over 7 times the speed of sound! I think it was on an Apollo flight that man attained his fastest speed relative to earth, almost 25,000 mph. That’s over 36,000 feet per second. Talk about being faster than a speeding bullet.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/
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