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1- Pearl River locks inside Stennis where the barges carrying stages come in to the facility...
2- Drawbridge over the Pearl River... 3- NOAA National Data Buoy Center inside Stennis... 4- Roy S. Estess main building inside Stennis, with the SSME and J-2 engines outside... 5- The Tower where WVB and company used to watch rocket tests out on the test stands a couple miles away... 6- Test stand... 7- Another Test stand... 8- The composite Advanced Solid Rocket Booster (ASRB) casing designed for the polar shuttle launches out of Vandenberg (which were all cancelled after Challenger). 9- Crossing the river back out of Stennis (from the bus which does not stop within the grounds anymore). 10- The F-1 engine back at the museum... details...
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1- F-1 film cooled nozzle extension "shingles" and the upper regeneratively cooled main nozzle tubes...
2- intricate 1 inch long TIG welds on the nozzle extension exit of the F-1 (and some random photobomber... LOL 3- Main nozzle, combustion chamber, and injector plate of the F-1 engine... 4- Materials stencil on the F-1-- notice the date 3Q68-- third quarter of 1968... 5- Details of the external combustion chamber... 6- Gas Generator exhaust duct details... 7- Engine gimbal mount and topside of the injector assembly... 8- LOX ducts and fuel duct entries... 9- F-1 combustion chamber outside upper details... 10- Nozzle, turbopump exhaust duct, and nozzle extension external details...
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1- bottom half of exhaust duct details...
2- opposite side details... 3- opposite side combustion chamber external details... 4- Commander Keira-- ready for liftoff! 5- Commander Keira after a successful shuttle landing... 6 and 7-- couple external shots of the S-IC-15 from the parking lot... Later! OL J R
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Excellent pictures Jeff!
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Thanks! Enjoy! OL J R
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I wonder how the F-1 motor got the dent on it?
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Probably bumped when being moved, would be my guess.
They USED to have an F-1 and a J-2 displayed inside Stennis in front of the old Visitor Center/museum, under a portcullis... They were tilted up at about a 45 degree angle so you could walk around the entire thing and see the upper end with all the piping and gas generator and turbine housings and all that (they were still well over your head but a little closer anyway!) I don't know if those engines are still displayed inside there or if these are them. I bet the originals are still inside the fence, and these are some that were sitting in storage someplace. They also had a Redstone inside the fence as well. I didn't see it from the bus when we went through, so maybe they plan to move it over... I dunno. It'd be nice if they moved the ASRB casing over too... since it's composite instead of steel, it should be fairly light compared to the steel SRB casings. I walked around under that thing a couple times back when you could actually go inside the grounds of Stennis... Later! OL J R
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LM and footprints
I went there today. I should have gone later when the school children field trips were done.
Here's two you didn't get. Fred's LM for Apollo 19, his moon boot's prints and his autograph dated 5/15/00 As you exit the facility, there are these two signs.
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Nice! Yep the LM mock-up dates back to when it was just a rest area outside Stennis... They didn't move it any closer to the museum, so it's a bit of a hike out to it I think... Betty nor Keira were that interested in walking out to it and given the heat of the day, time, and need to get back on the road, I didn't either... Nice shots! OL J R
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Hike? You drive to it. When you leave Stennis, instead of going right to the main road, you take the a left to the rest area and park right in front of it! Twenty steps away and your under it! I think they should add that to the bus tour and that's what I put on my comment card!
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