Some Perspective

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 07/05/2014 at 22:28 • Filed to: spacelopnik, saturn v

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This is the inside of the Saturn V first stage liquid oxygen fuel tank. Those are people in that tank. Big tank is big.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > f86sabre 07/05/2014 at 22:33

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Having just finished playing through Dead Space 1 and 2 in seauence, there's no way I'm going in there...

Diesel > f86sabre 07/05/2014 at 22:34

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The last Apollor rocket can be viewed for free at Johnson Space Center in Houston. It's absolutely huge.

GTCL > Diesel 07/05/2014 at 22:37

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at KSC you can walk underneath a Saturn V that is suspended from the ceiling it the Apollo center, which is attached to the original launch control room. It is a very humbling sight. It is also awesome to think that there was 100% success rate of the Saturn V rocket. All of the ones that were launched did exactly what they were designed to do. Pretty amazing feat.

Brian Silvestro > f86sabre 07/05/2014 at 22:39

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Why is space so awesome?!?!

DoYouEvenShift > f86sabre 07/05/2014 at 22:40

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Love me some F1 engines!

Diesel > GTCL 07/05/2014 at 22:41

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Is that a real Apollo rocket? I thought there was only one actual rocket left and it was at JSC.

f86sabre > Diesel 07/05/2014 at 22:49

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There were three left after the program was ended. One is at Kennedy, one at Johnson and one in Huntsville.

GTCL > Diesel 07/05/2014 at 22:49

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This is from the wiki page for the Apollo center. I do know for sure that this was the one that was outside and part of the bus tour for many years. It was awesome to see them restore it, because I remember seeing it when I was at KSC for space camp in like 1991. I've seen it three times since they moved it inside, an it is breathtaking every time.

"The building was built to house a restored Saturn V launch vehicle and features other exhibits related to the Apollo program . Until the structure was built, the Saturn V was displayed horizontally for many years outdoors just south of the Vehicle Assembly Building and tour buses brought visitors to it. The rocket's first stage is S-IC -T (a test stage) and the second ( S-II ) and third stages ( S-IVB ) are from SA-514, which would have been used for the canceled Apollo 19 mission. [ citation needed ] The interstages between the first and second stages and between the second and third stages are not present, but the Instrument Unit is on display (showing the internal equipment). The booster has been repainted to resemble Apollo 11's Saturn V. Its command module is the boilerplate BP-30 ."

f86sabre > Brian Silvestro 07/05/2014 at 22:49

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Because

Brian Silvestro > f86sabre 07/05/2014 at 22:50

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This response is more than efficient.

Diesel > f86sabre 07/05/2014 at 22:53

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I should know more about this stuff, I work at JSC. /facepalm

Diesel > GTCL 07/05/2014 at 22:53

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So, it's 3/5ths of an actual Apollo Rocket.

DoYouEvenShift > GTCL 07/05/2014 at 22:55

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I love KSC!! I haven't had a chance to check out Atlantis yet.

GTCL > Diesel 07/05/2014 at 22:56

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it's separated out, so you can actually see all of the engines and other hardware you don't normally get to see when they are in a "rocket garden." I really enjoy seeing all of that kind of stuff.

All Motor Is Best Motor > DoYouEvenShift 07/05/2014 at 22:57

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Too bad they're using shitty turbo V6's now.

GTCL > DoYouEvenShift 07/05/2014 at 22:58

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I've got some photos somewhere of Atlantis. Being that close to it was really cool. I really enjoyed the way they have it set up, so you can pretty much see it from every angle.

Diesel > GTCL 07/05/2014 at 23:09

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JSC's is spread out too.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > f86sabre 07/05/2014 at 23:30

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DoYouEvenShift > GTCL 07/05/2014 at 23:57

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Cant wait to see it! The VAB really blew me away. And they have this guy.

PS9 > f86sabre 07/06/2014 at 00:05

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This copy of civilization is going too slow. I thought the Earth gaming platform had super advanced hardware to run the game but I was clearly wrong. Jeez, 50k years into the simulation and these humans (that's what they've named themselves) still haven't figured out FTL and teleportation? I mean, the tech trees are clearly there and the steps are obvious, what's taking so long? And what's with the universally broken governments they've implemented? I mean, fuck, the entire governing apparatus of that one crazy country with all the states in it has ground to a halt! Why aren't the citizens in that sector of the sim up in arms about it? And what the hell is with all the infighting?? Sometimes I think these 'humans' were purposefully gimped by the simulation itself to be difficult and evil to one another, but that might be going to far.

Man, I've got half a mind to just delete the save game and reboot, but this game takes a goddamned eon to boot to any significant progress. I don't know if I want to spend another 4.7 billion years waiting behind a (albeit pretty) accretion loading screen. Ehh, I guess I'll just let the sim run and see what we get. The next version of this game better have a friggin fast forward button, though. For real.

AuntSlappy > GTCL 10/18/2015 at 12:46

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Just saw this message. I’d point out that Apollo 6 should be categorized as a partial failure of the launch vehicle, due to the severe problems during S-II second stage flight (loss of two engines, resulting in considerably decreased performance, forcing the S-IVB to burn an additional 29 seconds, which reduced fuel for later use) and the S-IVB third stage not restarting in orbit. They used the Service Module to propel the Apollo spacecraft into a highly elliptical orbit to salvage some of the reentry testing mission. If this had been a manned mission, it most likely would have needed to be aborted, either during launch, or after achieving low earth orbit.

Even scarier is that Apollo 8 was the next Saturn V mission, and was manned, after the near-catastrophe of Apollo 6. NASA thought they had the Apollo 6 problems (mostly pogo issues, as well as a problem with an unsupported igniter line vibrating and failing, as well as some inaccurate wiring in the engine controllers) ironed out enough to risk it. Borman, Lovell and Anders had attachments the size of basketballs.

Also, Apollo 13 did lose a second stage engine, but the other engines were able to compensate. The Saturn V performed satisfactorily, and was not related to the near-tragedy on that mission.