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... and take it up briefly below. Another is the LANTR concept of injecting oxygen into exhaust plume after it’s left the nozzle throat and the Glenn Research Center has pioneered ... an afterburner, but probably isn’t since it doesn’t involve doing something with the exhaust plume after it leaves the nozzle throat. That is the graphite/carbide hybrid fuel element ... would cover these metal strips. Thousands of these elements would be stacked together and form tubes that in turn would be stacked to comprise the core. These extremely tight tolerances meant the ...

... they didn’t come back and streak the side of the Orbiter with their erosive exhaust plume. And three, we had developed a new propellant that had very little aluminum in ... then the angle of attack (alpha), and angle of sideslip (beta) of the Orbiter/Tank stack. Now you have three variables. Then you have the positions of the boosters: up, down ... of “concentric” five dimensional “cubes” expanding along the SRB path relative to the Orbiter/Tank stack. That was one of the bigger technical challenges of this thing. The aerodynamics were very ...

... to do right before reentry to—because we were—we had never separated this whole stack of the command module, service module, lunar module for reentry. It had never been designed ... was a reaction, I wonder if you think perhaps it was an overreaction, to the exhaustion and the irregular heart rate that Jim Irwin experienced on 15 because of the heavy ... I didn’t need any sleeping pill anymore. Like we said earlier, it was an exhausting—you were physically tired when you got off the lunar surface. And I was able ...

... verify the critical interface between the Multiple Docking Adapter and the Command and Service Module." Stacking of the Saturn V and Saturn IB launch vehicles "has proceeded apace and end- ... protect nuclear rocket nozzles from vibration was being used to modify automobile engines to reduce exhaust fumes, at Lewis Research Center . The project had begun in 1970 when the Environmental ...

... sensor systems. Phenomena to be observed included OMS and RCS Reaction Control System engine firing exhaust plumes, the Orbiter environment, the Earth and its background, chemical and gas releases, and celestial ... challenging and exciting mission. However, on the last day of the flight, we were all exhausted and we were ready to return home. Our planned landing site was Edwards Air Force ... got to ride on the “Crawler.” This is the vehicle that takes the Space Shuttle stack out to the pad. We spent most of the day riding the crawler carrying the ...

... Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's Pinkel, Turner, and Voss with separate stacks for each cylinder, thus providing 14 jet exhausts which increased speed of aircraft from 13 to 18 mph between 10 ...

... months before switched on the scientific packages around it, then set loose a 15-lb. stack of miniaturized weather instruments built by French, Soviet, and U.S. scientists. An 11-footdiameter ... through the Venusian clouds in 46 hours, passing into the planet's sunlit hemisphere before exhausting its battery. The new Vega results suggested the planet had five discrete cloud layers whereas ...

... a moonwalking astronaut could survive the experience. After two scrubbed launches the final Gemini-Titan stack soared into low earth orbit and docked with its Agena target vehicle, placed aloft only ... as a scuba diver gave him the edge needed to get the work done without exhausting himself as some of his predecessors had done. After 94½ hours in space Lovell and ...

... command module, sort of minding the store, so to speak, holding the attitude for the stack of vehicles which consisted of Soyuz and Apollo and docking module. Tom and Deke went ... to stabilize the spacecraft, which was on a drogue chute. The firing jets left an exhaust of nitrogen tetroxide, which came in an air vent into the cabin and sort of ...

... they go around the Moon and come back, rather than try to turn the whole stack around. But doing all of the system problem-solving and so forth—and that represents ... the thrust reverser to where it changed the frequency level of that noise into this exhaust up above the fundamental modes of the airframe. It worked. Working in that aircraft, to ...

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