NASA testing vintage engine from Apollo 11 rocket

[Chuckt]

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engineers are looking to create the Space Launch System — the next generation of heavy-life rockets. Even four decades after they were used last, the F-1 rocket system is still the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever developed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/2 ... 34361.html

http://www.inquisitr.com/494564/nasa-fi ... ld-tricks/

R.H. Coates, an engineer who works with Case in Marshall's liquid propulsion office, said young engineers can learn a lot from the work done by predecessors using slide-rules in the 1960s, but no one wants to simply rebuild the old Saturn V engine.

"This wouldn't be your daddy's F-1," Coates said. "We'd use new materials and try to simplify it, update it."

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/ ... -missions/


I was looking at some rocket engine tests on youtube and they were pretty powerful.

[brad]

I think it would be just amazing to visit NASA and check out all their awesome equipment!

Just look at the size of that nozzle