Mercury/Redstone/Jupiter?

Jud McCranie wrote in message . ..
On 3 Sep 2004 07:28:25 -0700, (ed kyle) wrote:

As the diagrams show, most of the extra Mercury-Redstone length
was due to the interstage adapter that replaced the missile's
guidance/warhead sections.

Did the interstage start at the top of that 37.50 mark in the
diagrams? Was the interstage part the part that was painted with the
stripes?


Yes and yes. In addition to serving as a structural element,
I think the interstage also housed the Redstone's guidance
and control systems.

- Ed Kyle

Rusty Barton wrote:

On Fri, 03 Se


Here are diagrams of the Mercury-Redstone instrument comparttment.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...45/fig4.12.htm


Was it pressurized? The drawing makes it appear that it might have been,
with those domed bulkheads.

Pat

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 23:38:18 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:



Rusty Barton wrote:

On Fri, 03 Se


Here are diagrams of the Mercury-Redstone instrument comparttment.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...45/fig4.12.htm


Was it pressurized? The drawing makes it appear that it might have been,
with those domed bulkheads.

Pat

In the text of NASA SP-45 it's called "the pressurized instrument
compartment".

The text also states the Mercury-Redstone came from the Jupiter-C
version of the Redstone. It also states that the Jupiter-C fuel -
unsymmetrical diethyltriamine (UDETA) was thought to be too toxic for
use on a manned launch vehicle, so alcohol fuel was used.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-45/ch4.htm

- Rusty Barton