Carlos in the Apollo Room

9 responses to “Carlos in the Apollo Room”

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   the_other_ben

   Jun 9, 2013 at 8:38 pm

   Always nice to see Carlos. I have a small aluminum spherical tank that was LOX cleaned and sealed in the late 40s that he sold me for $100. Didn’t end up using it on the project I got it for, so it’s still sitting sealed on my shelf.

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   bike-R

   Jun 11, 2013 at 2:47 pm

   no Saturn V stuff?

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   jurvetson

   Jun 11, 2013 at 4:29 pm

   bike-R — oh there is some. The shiny ring on the shelf next to his right hand is from the F-1 engine of the Saturn V. I have one too:

   

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/wikkit] — I’d be happy to refund your $100 for it. =) Get anything from Apollo?

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   bike-R

   Jun 12, 2013 at 8:46 pm

   looks like a line clamp for fuel, are there any part numbers on these items or were they just dumped and bought as salvage items by the pound, what amazes me is the dollars that went into R+D on these items only to be trashed at a later date when the new and improved stuff comes out

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   jurvetson

   Jun 12, 2013 at 10:22 pm

   Oh, yes, lots of stamps. Here is a link to the detailed photos, background and location on the F-1 engine.

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   bike-R

   Jun 13, 2013 at 9:31 pm

   Stunning how 50 yr old tech is being studied and copied for the next gen of rocket..or did we abandon proven and reliable tech for the glitz of space planes? Kudos to the engineers of that era who developed this rocket tech with primitive computers and sliderules………….

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   the_other_ben

   Jul 1, 2013 at 11:06 pm

   Steve, I thought your collection was more curated than random space parts? I’m not sure what program my tank was from, if any. Could have been test hardware.

   When I was at Masten Space, we used Altas vernier tanks as propellant tanks on Xombie, bought from Norton Sales. That vehicle is still flying, which probably makes them some of the oldest still-working space hardware.

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   jurvetson

   Jul 2, 2013 at 3:52 pm

   bike-R — even some propellant combos that were studied in the early years and then abandoned (e.g., LOX methane by the Russians). I recently heard that the Germans tested thousands of fuel-oxidizer combos for the V-2 program.

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/wikkit] — Right you are. Carlos has some Apollo tanks, and I thought perhaps that is what you got as well.

   Top tank here
   

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   the_other_ben

   Jul 3, 2013 at 5:51 am

   Yep, the bottom tank is the same, just covered in spray foam and fiberglass painted white, to keep the LOX cooler. Clearly we were no competition in composites for Scaled. I welded together that vehicle, designed and built the avionics, ran the propulsion and flight test program, etc.

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