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You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.hey good "seeing" ya back!!Great video! I have seen portions of this video before but never the entire engine start and launch sequence in slow motion. The detailed narration is really quite interesting as though I have heard most of this before it was great to be able to see it happening as it is being explained.
I enjoy my life as a nerd as well! Nerds really get to do and see a lot of interesting things.
Wow... One of my regrets is never having seen a Saturn launch; utterly brutal machine! In a Science Friday interview with Gene Kranz, a caller asked Kranz if it was true that we no longer had a complete set of plans for the Saturn 5. He allowed that that was true, and then added that it really made no difference, as we no longer had the manufacturing base to build one anyway...
......"as we no longer had the manufacturing base to build one anyway... ".........
Sad commentary on our nation.
Evidently, there was a "nuance" to the no plans thing: according to this article, the "plans" are there, but not the "as built" plans. Great article; Pistonboy, you really sent me down the rabbit hole this morning! Thanks!
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/
NSTG8TR, I remember you telling about a 3D printer that could print titanium parts with the threads already in the holes. was that an "electron beam melting" device like they describe in this article?