I think it would be awesome to see an F-1, one of the non flown engines that is the real thing, be fired up for one test to show people just how powerful they are. Film and photos don't do justice to the actual experience of feeling it. I've heard of how powerful they are, but seeing one tested face to face would be cool.
What about the S-IC itself being recovered? By now from being on the bottom for so long it might be partly collapsed.
What about the S-IC interstage? It could be found intact and recovered.
I do wonder though how they know they are Apollo 11's and not another stage.
Quote from: OV-106 on 03/29/2012 11:27 pmI do wonder though how they know they are Apollo 11's and not another stage. I can't see how they could know that unless they had recovered some items from the debris field that had a serial number on it that they had cross-verified with NASA's records.
RELEASE: 12-102NASA ADMINISTRATOR SUPPORTS APOLLO ENGINE RECOVERY...
Thinking about this, in order to do a recovery they are probably going to have to cut the engines off of the bottom debris of the stage so that they can raise one or more of them. That is going to be difficult at that depth. Possible, but not necessarily an easy job.
Quote from: Blackstar on 04/13/2012 05:30 pmThinking about this, in order to do a recovery they are probably going to have to cut the engines off of the bottom debris of the stage so that they can raise one or more of them. That is going to be difficult at that depth. Possible, but not necessarily an easy job.Or raise the entire piece... It would be a shame if they deface the remains to get a single trinket off of it.Still not an easy job. A better thing if you ask me, is locate them, declare the site a heritage site and have people go down in mini subs to visit them.
Or raise the entire piece... It would be a shame if they deface the remains to get a single trinket off of it.
Quote from: kevin-rf on 04/13/2012 05:46 pmOr raise the entire piece... It would be a shame if they deface the remains to get a single trinket off of it.What is the depth?What is the mass of the five engines plus S-IC?