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Well, I'm sure logic isn't going to deter conspiracy theorists, but the Saturn V that look us to the moon in 1969 used Kerosene as fuel not liquid hydrogen whic
by HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
Well, I'm sure logic isn't going to deter conspiracy theorists, but the Saturn V that look us to the moon in 1969 used Kerosene as fuel not liquid hydrogen which is notoriously leak-prone.
FWIW the Atlas V that delivered the Mars rovers was also Kerosene (RP-1) fueled.
It is possible to make liquid hydrogen work reliably - the Ariane 5 ECA, which delivered the James Web telescope uses it, but it seems the SLS was congressionally mandated to reuse ancient Space Shuttle tech, which also used to suffer on average one launch scrub per mission ...
- perihelions 4y agoSaturn V did use liquid hydrogen for its second and third stages. One of the original plans for SLS was to adapt and modernize the original Saturn hydrogen engine, the J-2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-2X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-2X
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- dreamcompiler 4y agoOnly the first stage of the Saturn V used kerosene and it dropped off at about 61 km altitude. The two upper stages that actually pushed the spacecraft to the moon used liquid hydrogen.