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From reading about the SpaceX program there are remarkably very little left of the Apollo program engines. Having a real model even in disarray would be a usef

From reading about the SpaceX program there are remarkably very little left of the Apollo program engines. Having a real model even in disarray would be a useful study.

dasmoth 14y ago
No, there are complete F-1 engines in storage. They fired up the gas generator from one of them just a few months ago: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/f1_test.html There's a proposal to build new F-1B engines to power liquid boosters for the SLS (as a future replacement for the shuttle-derived boosters that will be used for the first few flights). Still awesome to get some of the old ones back, though!
brc 14y ago
How so? There is an Apollo rocket at Kennedy Space Centre complete with engines. Surely there are others around?
sswaner 14y ago
I had the joy of seeing 2 F-1 engines in one week. The first is at the old RocketDyne (now Pratt & Whitney) facility in Woodland Hills, CA (on Canoga, I think), and the second at the NM Air and Space Museum in Alamogordo. http://campl.us/jisP4TQtMJg http://campl.us/jisP4TQtMJg (Alamogordo) http://campl.us/i26CYMtwf8K http://campl.us/i26CYMtwf8K (Woodland Hills)
- EEGuy 14y ago
  * Confirmed, an F-1 engine stands tall [1] outside Rocketdyne corporate HQ on Canoga Ave just north of Victory Blvd in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. One can walk right up to the engine and have a gander; it's 18 feet tall. You can admire the maze of cooling pipes on the upper half of the nozzle and imagine the heat and roar. * In decades past, during development of the Apollo space program, Rocketdyne tested engines at its Field Laboratory test facility in the Santa Susana Mountains a few miles West. The sustained outdoor roar of those engine tests was audible better than 7 miles away. Source: My elementary school classmates, blase about the whole thing, saying "Oh, that's just Rocketdyne testing again". * Lots of facility pictures of several of the Rocketdyne facilities (with engines under assembly) in the Rocketdyne Archives [2] * It's a safe bet the name "Rocketdyne" would be a portmanteau of "Rocket Dynamics". * Some rocket equations and stability discussion at [3] [1] http://www.dailynews.com/ci_21138479/pratt-whitney-rocketdyne-sold-sacramento-based-gencorp-550 http://www.dailynews.com/ci_21138479/pratt-whitney-rocketdyn... [2] http://www.rocketdynearchives.com/canoga.html http://www.rocketdynearchives.com/canoga.html [3] http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/~space/ess472/Lecture_RocketDynamics.pdf http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/~space/ess472/Lecture_Roc...

From reading about the SpaceX program there are remarkably very little left of the Apollo program engines. Having a real model even in disarray would be a useful study.

dasmoth 14y ago

No, there are complete F-1 engines in storage. They fired up the gas generator from one of them just a few months ago: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/f1_test.html There's a proposal to build new F-1B engines to power liquid boosters for the SLS (as a future replacement for the shuttle-derived boosters that will be used for the first few flights). Still awesome to get some of the old ones back, though!

brc 14y ago

How so? There is an Apollo rocket at Kennedy Space Centre complete with engines. Surely there are others around?

sswaner 14y ago

I had the joy of seeing 2 F-1 engines in one week. The first is at the old RocketDyne (now Pratt & Whitney) facility in Woodland Hills, CA (on Canoga, I think), and the second at the NM Air and Space Museum in Alamogordo. http://campl.us/jisP4TQtMJg http://campl.us/jisP4TQtMJg (Alamogordo) http://campl.us/i26CYMtwf8K http://campl.us/i26CYMtwf8K (Woodland Hills)

EEGuy 14y ago
* Confirmed, an F-1 engine stands tall [1] outside Rocketdyne corporate HQ on Canoga Ave just north of Victory Blvd in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. One can walk right up to the engine and have a gander; it's 18 feet tall. You can admire the maze of cooling pipes on the upper half of the nozzle and imagine the heat and roar. * In decades past, during development of the Apollo space program, Rocketdyne tested engines at its Field Laboratory test facility in the Santa Susana Mountains a few miles West. The sustained outdoor roar of those engine tests was audible better than 7 miles away. Source: My elementary school classmates, blase about the whole thing, saying "Oh, that's just Rocketdyne testing again". * Lots of facility pictures of several of the Rocketdyne facilities (with engines under assembly) in the Rocketdyne Archives [2] * It's a safe bet the name "Rocketdyne" would be a portmanteau of "Rocket Dynamics". * Some rocket equations and stability discussion at [3] [1] http://www.dailynews.com/ci_21138479/pratt-whitney-rocketdyne-sold-sacramento-based-gencorp-550 http://www.dailynews.com/ci_21138479/pratt-whitney-rocketdyn... [2] http://www.rocketdynearchives.com/canoga.html http://www.rocketdynearchives.com/canoga.html [3] http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/~space/ess472/Lecture_RocketDynamics.pdf http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/~space/ess472/Lecture_Roc...