• Titan 1 Rocket Engine
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    Two side-by-side bell-shaped combustion chambers, with pumps and plumbing at the rear; combustion chambers of the "spaghetti" construction, featuring the regenerative-cooling tubes forming the chambers for lightness of construction as well as serving to cool the motors. Plumbing set in a frame, as a thrust mount. One of the engines has been fired.

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

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12/09/2021

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

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Engines; Military; Missiles; Rockets; Space

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