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An F-1 engine, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum, is on display at the Air Zoo in Portage, Michigan. [22] An F-1 engine is on a horizontal display stand at Science Museum Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. [citation needed] F-1 engine F-6049 is displayed vertically at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington as part of the Apollo exhibit.
Engine Origin Designer Vehicle Status Use Propellant Power cycle Specific impulse (s) [a] Thrust (N) [a] Chamber pressure (bar) Mass (kg) Thrust: weight ratio [b] Oxidiser: fuel ratio AJ-10-190 USA: Aerojet: Space Shuttle, Orion, Apollo CSM: Active Upper N 2 O 4 /MMH: Pressure-fed: 316 [1] 26,689 [1] 8.62 [1] 118 [1] 23.08: Archimedes New ...
A major portion of the service module was taken up by propellant and the main rocket engine. Capable of multiple restarts, this engine placed the Apollo spacecraft into and out of lunar orbit, and was used for mid-course corrections between the Earth and the Moon. The service module remained attached to the command module throughout the mission.
The most powerful of the resulting "normal" designs, the 8L, included eight F-1's in the lower stage and placed 68 tons in a translunar trajectory. Other designs in the series replaced the F-1s with large solids, while others studied nuclear rocket engines for the upper stages. Lunar payload for the various models varied between 48 and 75 tons.
The engine developed about 1,600 pounds-force (7.1 kN) of thrust, which produced a velocity of 3,200 meters per second from lunar launch, to LOR, and CM docking. [ 7 ] [ 2 ] Lunar ascent by Apollo 17 ascent stage.
Apollo Guidance and control system (PDF), General Dynamics/Convair/AVCO, June 1961 GE Apollo D-2 proposal: Aerodynamics, configurations, heating, structures, and materials (PDF) , 1961 GE Feasibility Study, NASA Contract NAS 5-302: A feasibility study of an advanced manned spacecraft and system (PDF) , vol. 2 System considerations, May 15, 1961
A full contract for the construction of S-IC-16 to S-IC-25 was drafted throughout mid-1967, but stages past S-IC-15 were canceled altogether in October of that year due to budgetary restrictions. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] S-IC-16 to -25 would have been utilized for follow-on Apollo missions, including those from the Apollo Applications Program .
The AJ10-190 engines could be reused for up to 100 missions. Diagram of an RS-25 (or Space Shuttle Main Engine), that used a twin shaft staged combustion cycle. There were three of these on the back of the orbiter. Comparing the diagram of the RS-25 to that of the Orbital Manoeuvring System (OMS), it is clear that the RS-25 engine is far more ...