Was Sea Dragon second stage reusability ever plausible?
Jan 12, 2018 · The linked blogpost in the question is from a series of Vintage Space posts in Discover Magazine. Amy Shira Teitel also has an extensive series of informative and …
orbital mechanics - Cheapest rocket to go to space? - Space …
Rocket Fuel. The Salvage 1 rocket fuel is pure Hollywood fiction. The John D. Clark book "Ignition!" presents an account of humanity's quest for the "best" possible rocket fuel ("best" …
Why does this rocket have a nose cone "cozy"?
Vintage Space has a video that explains the LES, the Q-ball and how the cover retraction mechanism worked. And the origin of the name: Q is the symbol used to indicate air pressure …
Can we use liquid propellants in amateur rockets?
Even if you manage to develop an amateur rocket motor that's capable of running on these, the infrastructure for storage and manipulating them is out of range of amateurs. Even …
history - How long was Sputnik 1's second stage rocket body in …
Jun 24, 2020 · This question was inspired by the segment in the vintage video "SCIENCE IN SPACE" EARLY 1960s SPACE EXPLORATION FILM SPUTNIK & EXPLORER VANGUARD …
Are cold gas thrusters viable for model rockets?
In the early 1970s Estes sold model rocket kits which used pressurized gas instead of traditional solid propellant model rocket engines. They were too expensive for me; I stuck with the …
Reference request: Rocketdyne Document R-3896-4 "F-1 Rocket …
Mar 22, 2022 · R-3896-4 F-1 Rocket Engine Illustrated Parts Breakdown. This manual contains illustrative and columnar listings of all parts of the engine that can be disassembled, …
history design fins saturn-i - Space Exploration Stack Exchange
Aug 18, 2019 · At about 05:55 in Scott Manley's new video NASA Might Be Giving Away A Saturn I Rocket - Here's Why I Love This Vintage Booster he says: So the Saturn; the first four …
history - What "fuel more powerful than anything the West (had) …
Jul 16, 2019 · A multi-stage rocket with a fuel more powerful than anything the West has in stock, put its final stage into around-the-world orbit. Two things are astonishing about Sputnik the …
Why is TEA-TEB chemical ignition used instead of spark ignition?
May 26, 2016 · Rocket engines use a LOT of fuel/oxygen. Each Merlin 1D engine has a 12,000 horsepower propellant pump (~100,000 HP total, just in the pumps). But the pump itself is like …