Never forget the rocket that sent the first American into space

No, I don't want to go to space. No, I don't want to have a malfunction. I just want to pass the Karman line and be called an Astronaut.

I want to escape all the stupid people on earth, even if there's a malfunction I'd be doing that, so personally I'd love to go to space at least once.

I love the red stone rocket engine

It's based off of the V-2 engine

https://youtu.be/Ve4ZHlpVab4

Yes it was watered down ethanol to not melt the engine

It uses water expansion for the turbo pump

*peroxide

Into steam to drive the pump

http://heroicrelics.org/info/redstone/a-7-steam-generator.html

Those rockets practically ran on vodka they had to use a 70-30 mixture to keep things cool in the combustion chamber

Ik

It's really cool what they could do 60 years ago

Ethanol is really good, because you can water it down

How did the machine those metal parts before CNC

Kerosene doesn't mix with water

Yes

They must have used some kind of mechanical CNC-style machine

Mixing with water reduces efficiency , it’s only for the engine to not melt

Yeah

Kerosene also has advantages, as long as you're using regenerative cooling

How did they cool the lunar assent engine.

It had a pintle injecter

Yeah, so an ablative combustion chamber wouldn't be good with a pintle injector

But how does a hypergolic not corrode the regen cooling channels

Idk

Hypergolics are just nasty

Yes

I just stay away from those

Is ammonia hypergolic with lox

I think it is

Cough username cough

oh

Lol

I just realized how ironic that was

The proton is a weird rocket

Shit

Yeah

I mean, it does have a very good payload capacity

And like 3 uperstages