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Rear Loader Posted: Wed, Mar 12 2008 9:38 AM

This weeks selection from the Flight International Spaceflight archive

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rapier replied on Wed, Mar 12 2008 10:51 AM

STS-114 "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle Mission

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Space Shuttle Main Engines being installed on the Discovery at the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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Good guess but not the right answer have another shot..........

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jetrobert replied on Thu, Mar 13 2008 6:23 PM

 Saturn V

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rapier replied on Thu, Mar 13 2008 7:53 PM

No, jetrobert.

Without the shadow of a doubt SSME, but ...... which mission ?

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Not having seen any of the archives I would say Columbia for STS-1 or Discovery for STS-26R.

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rapier replied on Sat, Mar 15 2008 2:57 PM

The very first mission in 1981 or the very first "Return to Flight" in 1988 .....

Maybe.

I found the same image (black and white) at p. 65 of  Aerofax Datagraph 5 -  "Rockwell International Space Shuttle" -  by Dennis Jenkins - 1989 - Aerofax, Inc. ...... with the following (useless) caption: "Each SSME produces 375,000lbs. of thrust at sea level.  The engines are regeneratively cooled by liquid hydrogen flowing through thrust chamber walls".

 

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Rear Loader replied on Mon, Mar 17 2008 9:28 AM

Well we shall see all will be revealed on Wednesday

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rapier replied on Tue, Mar 18 2008 2:54 PM

Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia main propulsion system after re-installation in July 1980, months before the April 12, 1981 first flight.

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Rear Loader replied on Wed, Mar 19 2008 10:44 AM

"The 12 March image shows the Space Shuttle Main Engines and orbital manouvering system engines installed in the Space Shuttle Orbiter 102, Columbia, on 20 August 1980."

 
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