H-1 Rocket Engine

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H-1 Rocket Engine

Bell-shaped nozzle with attached slightly tapering combustion chamber on top, with adjoining pumps and associated plumbing fixed on one side and top of combustion chamber. Nozzle with longitudinally placed nickel alloy cooling tubes with 10 equi-distant support bands around nozzle, plus one rim band.

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Date Created

11/19/2021

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Keywords

Engines; Rockets; Space

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