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Thrust Chamber
by UrsusArctos
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8 years ago
This is the thrust chamber from one of five Saturn V first stage F1 engines that launched the historic Apollo 11 moon mission. It is on display in the Cosmosphere, a world-class space museum located in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Each F-1 engine burned 5683 pounds of kerosene and liquid oxygen per second and generated 1.5 million pounds of thrust. In two and a half minutes, the five F-1 engines propelled the Saturn V to a height of 42 miles and a speed of 6164 miles per hour.
This and other Apollo 11 engine parts were recovered from the floor of the Atlantic ocean in March 2013 by an expedition funded by Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. The conservation team responsible for cleaning and stabilizing the recovered engine parts found serial numbers that positively identified them as having flown the Apollo 11 mission.
Each F-1 engine burned 5683 pounds of kerosene and liquid oxygen per second and generated 1.5 million pounds of thrust. In two and a half minutes, the five F-1 engines propelled the Saturn V to a height of 42 miles and a speed of 6164 miles per hour.
This and other Apollo 11 engine parts were recovered from the floor of the Atlantic ocean in March 2013 by an expedition funded by Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. The conservation team responsible for cleaning and stabilizing the recovered engine parts found serial numbers that positively identified them as having flown the Apollo 11 mission.
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It’s a unique documentary in that all of the interviews are with design engineers, no astronauts or mission controllers.
Then we got used to seeing Shuttle boosters fall into the ocean under parachutes.
Hierarchical databases have always fascinated me.
But they worked!
That's amazing they were able to find these gems at the bottom of the ocean and bring them to a museum for a new generation to behold. They're in minty condition for having spent so many hours on the bottom.
The expedition found some Apollo 12 engine parts too. I believe those have gone to a museum in Seattle.