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Offline Prober

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RPK Parts that was stored for a time in Michoud
« on: 03/17/2014 10:05 pm »
RPK Parts that was stored for a time in Michoud

Linkage to other RPK threads
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=26977.0

« Last Edit: 03/18/2014 01:33 am by Prober »
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Re: RPK
« Reply #1 on: 03/17/2014 11:40 pm »
Prober any idea what they are? That looks like a 1st stage barrel section, 1st stage LOX tank and a 2nd stage RP-1 tank?
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Re: RPK
« Reply #2 on: 03/17/2014 11:52 pm »
RPK Parts that was stored for a time in Michoud

This is pure L2 Material and until now not comfortable releasing it.


not really, there were pics in the auction announcement.
The stuff was auctioned off, so there is no sensitivity
here are pics from the internet
« Last Edit: 03/17/2014 11:57 pm by Jim »

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Re: RPK
« Reply #3 on: 03/18/2014 12:07 am »
Actually Prober they were; I did a search on the auction and this is what I found.
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