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This is the turbopump 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.
There is nothing wrong with your monitor’s color balance. This display was lit primarily by blue lights. I suppose the museum wanted to evoke a sense of this piece as it might have appeared laying on the ocean floor.
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.
There is nothing wrong with your monitor’s color balance. This display was lit primarily by blue lights. I suppose the museum wanted to evoke a sense of this piece as it might have appeared laying on the ocean floor.
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I hear you, Cat. I grew up loving the space program and the future imagined in the film “2001”. It’s a damned shame we quit so quickly after taking our first steps into space.
What people don't remember is that the race to the moon had practically nothing to do with science and exploration. Oh, sure it was for dreamers like Von Braun. But for the politicians who controlled the purse strings, it was about beating the Soviet Union. Once we accomplished that, congressional support for manned space exploration evaporated. As for the average US citizen, issues such as ending the war in Vietnam, fighting poverty, and civil unrest deserved more attention. So public support evaporated as well.
What people don't remember is that the race to the moon had practically nothing to do with science and exploration. Oh, sure it was for dreamers like Von Braun. But for the politicians who controlled the purse strings, it was about beating the Soviet Union. Once we accomplished that, congressional support for manned space exploration evaporated. As for the average US citizen, issues such as ending the war in Vietnam, fighting poverty, and civil unrest deserved more attention. So public support evaporated as well.
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