Elongated bell-shaped nozzle, shiny metal, tapering to cylindrical combustion chamber; pump and other plumbing on top of the chamber; two large diameter (6 in.) propellant inlet pipes (letter "n" pattern), on side; both these pipes and a third or middle pipe, leading out of large pump on top side; this middle pipe leading directly to another large pipe encircling outside periphery of combustion chamber; pump with glossy brown fittings on side; one of the projecting pipes from center of this fitting with a glossy purple flat closure plate; duller gray sphere at side of pump, this sphere with two attached metal boxes, top box blue; other side of engine on top with a smaller pump, with glossy brown housing; glossy blue metal cylinder attached to this housing with braided metal pipe leading from center of this blue cylinder and leading back to brown housing; stand at bottom of bell nozzle, six-sided, aluminum colored and bolted to engine; nozzle smooth (no cooling tubes) and made in four different conical sections as noted by seams.
Created by
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Date Created
03/17/2022
Source
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Keywords
Engines; Rockets; Space
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