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  "Data Sheet: H-1 Rocket Engine."

  News from Rocketdyne.
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  "List of Equipment, Components, Materials, and/or Services Now Being Developed, Fabricated or Performed."

  Lists of different parts of rockets.
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  "Rocket engine turbo pumps for space travel."

  Finding the turbopump arrangement which is best suited for a given rocket engine - space travel applications - constitutes an important task. The arrangement depends upon a large variety of different factors, such as, the engine cycle, weight, the liquids to be pumped, the cavitation performance, the bearings and their lubrication, the seals and the turbine. In this report these factors and their influence on the turbopump configuration are discussed. It is shown that three of them: weight, propellants to be pumped and obtainable suction performance have the largest influence on the selection of the turbopump. A systematic approach is outlines for the design process, which allows to arrive at a turbopump arrangement best suited for a given application.
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  "Manned space flight schedules. Vol. III, launch vehicles : book 4, engines."

  OMSF Program Status Review October 1965.; Edition "A"
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  "Information About Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Florida Research and Development Center."

  A history of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Florida Research and Development Center.
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  "Rocket engine selection criteria."

  This paper considers many of the factors and criteria which have to be considered and evaluated when selecting a specific rocket engine for a given vehicle application. The lists of criteria can be helpful as checklists in design and systems engineering of a rocket propulsion device. About ten different applications are examined to illustrate the relative importance of some of these selection criteria. There will be groupings of our major types of criteria; namely, performance, operational, economic and so-called judgment criteria. In many cases the last three categories are equally or more important than the performance criteria in selecting one of several rocket engines for a specific application. The actual selection usually is a compromise to make the rocket engine responsive to several important criteria.
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  "Reliability and quality management."

  The role of Reliability and Quality in NASA program management is well defined by the NPC 200 series and complimentary procurement regulations.
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  "Problems in cryogenic pump design for space application."

  Report detailing the problems surrounding cryogenic pump design for space travel and missions.
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  "S-IVB Saturn high energy upper stage and its development."

  The development of carrier rockets For manned space missions has been one of the major activities in the aerospace field during the past decade. The early space efforts were made possible by the existence of large ballistics missiles. It soon became obvious that the delivery of weapons and the launch of large spacecraft could not be combined into one operational system in an efficient way; therefore, a family of spacecraft boosters had to be created.
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  "Launch Information: Saturn S-IV and the RL10 Engine."

  The RL10, which powers the National Aeronautics and Space Administration' s Saturn S-IV, is the newest propulsion system to be put to work in advancing our nation's space effortr On November 27, 1963, a pair of RLlO's successfully powered a five-ton Centaur space vehicle in earth orbit in the first flight demonstration of the outer space powerplant which uses high-nenergy liquid hydrogen as fuel. A six-engine cluster of RLlO' s, generating a total of 90, 000 pounds of thrust, powers the Saturn S-IV stage. The 15, 000 pound-thrust engine was designed and developed for NASA's Mar shall Space Flight Center at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's Florida Research and Development Center, 20 miles northwest of West Palm Beach.