Quote from: Blackstar on 03/22/2013 01:10 amQuote from: Integrator on 03/22/2013 12:04 amQuote from: Jim on 03/21/2013 09:28 pmSaw the retrieval ship just leave Port CanaveralConfirmed, Seabed Worker is headed out to sea on practically the same track she came in on.Do you think they are going out to the same location to recover more hardware?INTEGRATORIsn't there a ship tracking site where you can track ships based upon their GPS transponders? Could check that.try here: Click on last know position link to show Google Map.http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=259889000
Quote from: Integrator on 03/22/2013 12:04 amQuote from: Jim on 03/21/2013 09:28 pmSaw the retrieval ship just leave Port CanaveralConfirmed, Seabed Worker is headed out to sea on practically the same track she came in on.Do you think they are going out to the same location to recover more hardware?INTEGRATORIsn't there a ship tracking site where you can track ships based upon their GPS transponders? Could check that.
Quote from: Jim on 03/21/2013 09:28 pmSaw the retrieval ship just leave Port CanaveralConfirmed, Seabed Worker is headed out to sea on practically the same track she came in on.Do you think they are going out to the same location to recover more hardware?INTEGRATOR
Saw the retrieval ship just leave Port Canaveral
Public invited to see Amazon CEO's moon engines in Kansashttp://www.collectspace.com/news/news-051413b.htmlThe massive moon rocket engines that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos salvaged from the ocean floor are now undergoing conversation in Kansas and the public is invited to come see.The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center will open its new SpaceWorks Observation Gallery on Friday, May 24, where visitors can get a clear view of the conservators as they preserve the parts for two mammoth Apollo Saturn V F-1 rocket engines that powered Americans to the moon. Some of the recovered engine artifacts at the Hutchinson museum weigh as much as 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms), while others are as small as a dime."These artifacts give us a magnificent window into history," Kansas Cosmosphere president Jim Remar said. "The F-1 remains the most powerful American liquid-fueled rocket engine ever developed. Studying these [salvaged] engines can provide us a tremendous amount of information about the design of future rockets and spacecraft."
Going to go out on a limb here and say that the bolded above should have "conservation" as I don't think talking to the parts is going to achieve a whole lot
Quote from: RanulfC on 05/16/2013 02:04 pmGoing to go out on a limb here and say that the bolded above should have "conservation" as I don't think talking to the parts is going to achieve a whole lot Hah! Indeed — but just imagine if those engine parts could talk, the stories they could tell! (Corrected in original citation). Thanks.
Have they identified from which Saturn V the F-1 engines are from?
I would argue that they where retrieved from a single area (Debris feild) and thus came from a single vehicle. The vehicles did not all come down in the same place.But I could easily be proved wrong.
Quote from: kevin-rf on 05/21/2013 01:37 pmI would argue that they where retrieved from a single area (Debris feild) and thus came from a single vehicle. The vehicles did not all come down in the same place.But I could easily be proved wrong.Can't find the map now... but someone made a map of all the reentry points for various Apollo first stages.. Several of them are close enough that the debris fields surely overlap.