Aug 16 2006
NASA Borrowing from Apollo
NASA is learninig from its past:
Snoddy, a manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has been removing valves and other parts from Apollo exhibits as he oversees construction of the upper-stage engine on the new moon rocket, dubbed Ares 1. Some of the pieces and accompanying documentation are not available anywhere but museums, he said.
The move makes sense: The new engine Snoddy is working on, a J-2X, is an updated version of the J-2 engine that powered the third stage of the 363-foot Saturn V rocket during Apollo.
You know, it nice to see NASA learning from their past successes. I can only imagine where the space program would be had they continued to develop the Apollo platform in the 80s instead of today.
