Sujet

Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Apollo Lunar Module Descent Engine, 1966. Creator: Space Technology Laboratories.

Légende

This is a Descent Engine designed by Space Technology Laboratories as used on the Project Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LM) to land on the Moon. The engine could be throttled between 1,000 and 10,000 pounds of thrust and was also the first gimballed and throttable rocket engine used on a spacecraft. The engine shown here is an early developmental model dating to 1966. During the Apollo lunar missions from 1969-1972, there were no problems with the Descent Engine, although on the Apollo 13 mission, no Moon landing was made and the Descent Engine served another purpose, that of taking the craft out of lunar orbit and back home. The engine was donated to the Smithsonian in 1972 by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A88_144

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

156,6Mo (4,9Mo) / 53,3cm x 73,6cm / 6300 x 8688 (300dpi)

Mots clés

technology education country space science solar system astronomy color moon lunar location century engine rocket spacecraft space travel Sixties United States of America Colour Smithsonian Institution lunar landing 1960s National Air and Space Museum Educational Institution 20th century air and space museum lunar landings American America USA Apollo Mission moon landing scientific institution object united states moon landings Heritage Art NASM PROPULSION-Rocket Engines Nozzle phenolic ablative liner propellant lines stainless steel valves stainless steel injector aluminum. Space Technology Laboratories STL