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Coolest Apollo Pic's

by gareth
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Motley
    In the top picture, the 'bubble' midway down the rocket is a 'sonic bubble'. That is where the rocket is passing through the sound barrier.

    I watched a program on this last night. When they were in orbit they called back to mission control to ask where the last jettisoned section was in relation to their current position. They asked this because they were seeing lights that were tracking their cockpit and thought i was the last section, but it was over 6k nautical miles away.
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    Great pics. Thanks for sharing this with us. When was this taken??

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  • Profile picture of the author arnoldschwartz
    Amazing pics
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  • Profile picture of the author gareth
    Man we should have rockets still like this not crumby stuff.

    Have you guys seen the orion nuclear rocket they studied - its huge.

    I get a kick out of the plume in that second pic - pre-calculated to the nth degree.

    The russian lunar rocket was the N1 - it had like 80 engines and vibrated to bits on lift off.
    Which is a shame as the space race would have gone much further with the competition.

    Lets face it the apollo/saturn rocket is the coolest spacecraft of all time.

    The new NASA designs are just as cool though

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    • Profile picture of the author ctaylordill
      Never see any cool footage like that on the news.
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  • Profile picture of the author flaminjo
    there was this Buzz that Nasa is going to have some new pictures released this anniversary, are these the ones???
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Motley
    what cracks me up is that these were built and flown in a time when calculations were done on pencil and paper or on computers that would be dwarfed by an iphone.
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  • Profile picture of the author vinspore
    Very neat pictures of Apollo, I really like the first one the most.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Patterson
    We've got those old things laying around everywhere here it seems...

    http://www.panoramio.com/photo/21117543
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  • Profile picture of the author ctaylordill
    Never see anything footage like that on the news.
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