NASA lights a 40 year old candle (sorta)

[mrsleeve]

For all the space geeks out there this is a really cool read. I enjoyed it, especially when you think about how they got SHIT DONE back in the old days. NASA lights up an Apollo Saturn 5 engine 40+ years latter. Well the fuel pump anyway it makes 55,000 shaft hp and just runs the main engines fuel pump, pumping 1 ton of kerosene and 2 tons of propellent through the nozzle every second

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/

[CabbE30]

As a senior mechanical engineering major, this intrigues the fuck outta me! SO cool!

[mrsleeve]

and for the computer geeks a fun quick read about the Apollo Guidance computer

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/07/20/how-powerful-was-the-apollo-11-computer/

[ethrtyiS]

as a computer engineering major, that was really fucking cool! both great reads.

[xAZxE30x]

awesome! showed this to my pops.. he is a big space dude! He used to work on most of the satellites that went up so I have always been in love with this kind of stuff

[kickinindian]

that was a cool read its crazy how they cut some stuff that was not high priority u would expect everything for this to be perfect but their were some imperfections and that makes it even more cool!

[MJCRO]

and for the computer geeks a fun quick read about the Apollo Guidance computer

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/20...o-11-computer/

As a CIS major, this was rad to read too.

[frankenbeemer]

Good stuff, and those WELDS! Beautiful.