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Saturn V Large Scale Cutaway (2007-06-19)
Enjoy this all time great rocket, one of the most sexy yet made. If only we had a few left for large scale missions to mars or the outer planets, or to launch large space telescopes (a folding 30 ... [Read More]
Skylab (2008-08-11)"Skylab was launched 14 May 1973 by a Saturn INT-21 (a two-stage version of the Saturn V launch vehicle) into a 235 nautical mile (435 km) orbit. The launch is sometimes referred to as Skylab 1, or ... [Read More]
N-1 (2008-08-27)I think Russian rockets are pretty much the coolest of all. The N1 is possibly the most impressive, best looking rocket ever made. The inter-stage open truss design (common in communist rockets) ... [Read More]
Manned Venus Flyby (2009-01-22)There have been many planned flyby missions for Mars and-or Venus. Much effort was put into these plans, in part because it was expected that Russia would skip the moon in the 1970s and chose a new ... [Read More]
Saturn V F-1 Nozzle (2009-06-04)[Read More]
Ares X-1 Assembly (2009-08-06)This simple test rocket, in a way the biggest hobby launch ever, will be an early test of a man-rated rocket. Why is this a great rocket in my mind? Because it uses an inexpensive and fairly ... [Read More]
The Saturn Instrument Unit (2009-11-24)"The Saturn V Instrument Unit is a ring-shaped structure fitted to the top of the Saturn V rocket's third stage (S-IVB) and the Saturn IB's second stage (S-IVB). It was immediately below the SLA ... [Read More]
You call that a rocket? This is a rocket! (2009-12-09)This shows the assembly and parts of the Saturn V. Click to embiggen most cromulently. (I split the image in half so that Google would accept it and keep it readable. However, the first one is still ... [Read More]
"The Rocket Project" by Sony (2010-03-09)The Rocket Project Building rockets with kids, and using rocketry and computers to teach science and engineering... great! Using this project as a chance to sell overpriced laptops... eh pr ... [Read More]
John Holdren on the new manned missions (2010-05-23)Skipping the Moon is exactly the right call here, and on this I can't agree more. The Moon is a luxury that we cannot now afford, and with triage comes hard choices. But there is one major flaw with ... [Read More]
Saturn V F1 engine (2010-09-13)"A close-up view of the F-1 Engine for the Saturn V S-IC (first) stage depicts the complexity of the engine. Developed by Rocketdyne under the direction of the Marshall Space Flight Center, the F-1 ... [Read More]
Video of Project Daedalus (2011-03-01)"The world's first engineering study of an unmanned spaceship to explore one of the nearer stars was made by a technical group of the British Interplanetary Society between 1973-77. The target ... [Read More]
Ullage motor (2011-06-15)This is a Saturn V 3rd stage ullage rocket with a few thousand lbs of thrust. More from Ray Cunningham. [Read More]
SONY Project Shiphunt (2011-08-21)Well SONY is back with a new, ill conceived student-exploitation campaign that selects a few students, and pretends that they and well placed Sony computers did something cool. Last time it was to ... [Read More]
Saturn V (2012-01-14)[Read More]
German V-2 Nosecone on Ebay? (2012-04-17)Any experts out there know if this is real or not? It looks really thick and heavy for a nosecone, not sure what I am looking at here! On Ebay "Extremely rare WW2 V2 nose cone, the first 16 inches ... [Read More]
Saturn V F1 engine recovered from the ocean floor (2013-03-20)"The thrust chamber of one of five first stage F-1 rocket engines used to launch one of NASA's mighty Saturn V rocket on a historic Apollo moon mission is seen on ... [Read More]
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