NASA testing vintage engine from Apollo 11 rocket

"Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things
eventually come back around. At NASA, that
means looking to the Apollo program for ideas
on how to develop the next generation of
rockets for future missions to the moon and
beyond.

Young engineers who weren't even born when
the last Saturn V rocket took off for the moon
are testing a vintage engine from the program.

The engine, known to NASA engineers as No.
F-6049, was supposed to help propel Apollo 11
into orbit in 1969, when NASA sent Neil
Armstrong and two other astronauts to the
moon for the first time. The flight went off
without a hitch, but no thanks to the engine —
it was grounded because of a glitch during a
test in Mississippi and later sent to the
Smithsonian Institution, where it sat for years.

Now engineers are learning to work with
technical systems and propellants not used
since before the start of the space shuttle
program, which first launched in 1981."

See:

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-testing-v...222445500.html

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wrote:

"Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things
eventually come back around. At NASA, that
means looking to the Apollo program for ideas
on how to develop the next generation of
rockets for future missions to the moon and
beyond.

Young engineers who weren't even born when
the last Saturn V rocket took off for the moon
are testing a vintage engine from the program.

The engine, known to NASA engineers as No.
F-6049, was supposed to help propel Apollo 11
into orbit in 1969, when NASA sent Neil
Armstrong and two other astronauts to the
moon for the first time. The flight went off
without a hitch, but no thanks to the engine ‹
it was grounded because of a glitch during a
test in Mississippi and later sent to the
Smithsonian Institution, where it sat for years.

Now engineers are learning to work with
technical systems and propellants not used
since before the start of the space shuttle
program, which first launched in 1981."

See:

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-testing-v...et-222445500.h
tml

Good ol' LOX/kerosene!

explained :
"Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things
eventually come back around. At NASA, that
means looking to the Apollo program for ideas
on how to develop the next generation of
rockets for future missions to the moon and
beyond.

Young engineers who weren't even born when
the last Saturn V rocket took off for the moon
are testing a vintage engine from the program.

The engine, known to NASA engineers as No.
F-6049, was supposed to help propel Apollo 11
into orbit in 1969, when NASA sent Neil
Armstrong and two other astronauts to the
moon for the first time. The flight went off
without a hitch, but no thanks to the engine —
it was grounded because of a glitch during a
test in Mississippi and later sent to the
Smithsonian Institution, where it sat for years.

Now engineers are learning to work with
technical systems and propellants not used
since before the start of the space shuttle
program, which first launched in 1981."

See:

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-testing-v...222445500.html

Another reference,

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/saturn-v-moon-rocket-engine-firing-again-after-40-years-sort-of/

which talks about laser-scanning existing units to get the dimensions
to fabricate new parts.

And has this little bit:

The gas generator itself was no slouch, producing about 31,000 pounds
of thrust when lit. In the full-up engine, this thrust was used to
drive a turbine that produced about 55,000 bhp, which in turn drove the
turbopumps that kept the thirsty engine fed with the three tons per
second of RP-1 and LOx.

Neato pictures, too.

/dps

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virtuosity, currently soloing in obscurity in Mom's garage.
Bradley Wertheim, theAtlantic.com, Jan 10 2013