On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 19:51:36 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>Film footage: http://tinyurl.com/ztmxeqg
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IElnBqHI-hE
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>The booster engine was redesigned to become the engine for the Redstone,
>later for the Saturn 1. So this one of Apollo-Saturn ancestors.?
>
>Officially, the program was canceled on 13 July 1957, after the first four
>launches ended in failure. In reality the program was obsolete by mid-1957
>as the first Atlas ICBM began flight tests in June and the Jupiter and Thor
>IRBMs were showing great promise. These ballistic missiles however would not
>have been possible without the liquid fuel rocket engine developments
>accomplished in the Navaho program.
It's cancellation was a real blow to the work force at North
American. They said that people were lined up in the halls getting
their pink slips. Took a while to recover from the cancellation.
Dave:
Old age comes at an inconventient time
HONK if you do everything people tell you to do.
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