Re: Saturn V fuel lines
- From: Monte Davis <monte.davis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:42:53 GMT
Proponent <Proponent@xxxxxxx> wrote:
when I finally saw the
hardware with my own eyes I was impressed not by how large it was but
by how *small*. That is, by the fact that something just a few times
the size of a large truck could go all the way to the Moon and back.
It's the combination of large *and* small -- all that Saturn V to get
to orbit, and just that [part of] third stage and SM-CM-LM package to
go the next 500,000+ miles -- that's unique to space. That's the
logarithm from the rocket equation, expressed in mass and dimension.
Monte Davis
http://montedavis.livejournal.com
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