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Ideas Into Hardware: A History of the Rocket Engine Test Facility At the Nasa Glenn Research Facility | 
 enlarge | Author: Virginia P. Dawson
Publisher: NASA
Category: Book
Buy Used: $1,299.99
Sales Rank: 1311944
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.1
ASIN: B001LF1QC4
Publication Date: 2004
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Condition: (From a private collection, read once, stiff creaseless spine, clean mark-free pages) Default Desc: A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. E-Mail Confirmation, We are a business dedicated to customer service. Please contact us if you are not satisfied or have questions.
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When a building is listed on the National Register of Historical Places, certain privileges and responsibilities are involved. One of the responsibilities, if the building is to be destroyed, is to document the building, its place in history, and information about why it was so designated. The Rocket Engine Test Facility (RETF) at what is now the NASA Glenn Research Center was built in 1957. It was a major player in the development of rocket engines, with many Ups and downs as the fortunes of NASA ebbed and flowed. In 1984-1985, RETF was entered on the National Registry of Historical Places. In 1995 it was slated for demolition to make way for an airport runway. This book is the required documentation. It is full of interesting tidbits from U.S. space history. For example, the decision to use hydrogen to power the upper stage in the Saturn rockets was primarily due to missionary work by RETF personnel. (Wernher Von Braun expected to use RP-1.) The use of hydrogen is generally recognized as one of the major factors in the success of the Apollo program. Another example was the use of fluorine as an igniter for the engines in the test stands. It was so reactive, it would start ignition with almost any fuel/oxidizer mixture. Electrical ignition was finally adopted
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