Dr von Braun stands beside the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V dynamic test vehicle, now on display at the Space and Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Dr von Braun stands beside the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V dynamic test vehicle, now on display at the Space and Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Each engine stood about 19 feet high with a 12.5-foot nozzle exit.
They burned through roughly 15 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene every second and produced about 7.5 million pounds of thrust.
This is an optical illusion like Gandolf
Don’t forget he was a Nazi and believed in eugenics…
https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?si=Q2TkjNRtPryJPqEA
Classic song by Tom Lehrer 😆
Guy was a nazi and the USA gave him a free pass because of technology.
Arthur Rudolph was the real engineer behind the Saturn, and we kicked him out.
“Some have harsh word for this man of renown, while other think our attitude should be one of gratitude, like the widows and cripples of old London town, who owe their large pensions to Wernher Von Braun” – Tom Lehrer.
What he must have felt comparing the largest rocket in the world to his little one engined V-2 back in the 1940’s. Big change in 20 years (and a few billion dollars).
I’ve seen these at Kenney Space Center and it’s absolutely kind boggling how large they are.
meh, a Nazi next to a rocket
Nazi helps us build rockets. Operation Paperclip.
*”I always aim for the stars, but sometimes I hit London.”*
-Werner von Braun
(probably apocryphal)
He’s aiming it at London out of habit
He ran a slave labor factory…people died/suffered incredibly by his bloody hands
No excuses.
Back to the topic I grew up with Apollo I can rem watching a later landing (Im 7-8)
Saturn V will always be my favorite rocket
Still insane to think how this rocket stage remained unbeaten in power until SLS and then Super Heavy in 2022/2023.
Also insane to think that the V3 booster will have nearly 3 times the thrust of the S-1C
Yes, he was a Nazi. The inventor of the concept of statistical correlation also invented eugenics. The co-inventor of the transistor was an acolyte of his. The co-discoverer of DNA was a horrible racist and sexist. The father of modern gynecology did his research by operating on Black slavewomen without consent or anesthesia. Agriculture has saved billions from starvation due to the research of a German chemist who also pioneered advanced chemical warfare. Our lives benefit daily from the research and discoveries of many horrible, horrible people.
[Nazi Schmazi](https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro).
When the rocket goes up, it’s science. Where the rocket goes down, it’s politics
War criminal stands beside tech he developed and tested by killing civilians.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[F1](/r/Space/comments/1qtfh0v/stub/o332wuw “Last usage”)|Rocketdyne-developed rocket engine used for Saturn V|
| |SpaceX Falcon 1 (obsolete small-lift vehicle)|
|[LOX](/r/Space/comments/1qtfh0v/stub/o331p8n “Last usage”)|Liquid Oxygen|
|[N1](/r/Space/comments/1qtfh0v/stub/o32q0xb “Last usage”)|Raketa Nositel-1, Soviet super-heavy-lift (“Russian Saturn V”)|
|[RP-1](/r/Space/comments/1qtfh0v/stub/o331p8n “Last usage”)|Rocket Propellant 1 (enhanced kerosene)|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1qtfh0v/stub/o32mdug “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
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US has a track record of using Nazi for space exploration
There’s a multi-use complex there named after him too. Pretty cool, saw a comedy show there once. Von Braun Center
Y’all are really socking it to the guy who’s been dead for 50 years. Great job.
Here’s Atlantis’ engines on the runway at Edwards after the last California landing. No pic of me for scale but trust me, they were huge.
In the 60’s we could land on the moon. In 2026, we can’t.
Those are some huge German balls.
Glad we beat the Nazis before he was ready to nuke us.
Oh look, a Nazi who killed tens of thousands of slave laborers.
Neat!