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<blockquote data-quote="oldmachguy" data-source="post: 16882504" data-attributes="member: 48367"><p>A short, soft back NASA book on the development of the space shuttle I picked up at a Kennedy SC gift shop has like 5 pages on the SSME’s. It covers the entire effort at a high level, but focuses on the last 18 months and first flight (Young & Crippen, 1981 IIRC). Although I designed aircraft at North American I didn’t really know jack about rocket engines. When they flew the shuttle for the first time they were literally holding their breath because they honestly didn’t know the SSME’s were going to work, especially since they had had a massive failure in the test cell in Huntsville just months before. When Columbia reached MECO they actually started crying as their adrenaline crashed. One more example of “if you only knew” what the deal really was. </p><p></p><p>Later, as I did some work at our Downey, CA facility and learned much more about the shuttle and its subsystems, I was literally shaking my head like, “are y’all f’n kidding me? You actually stood that thing up and lit those Roman Candle SRB’s? Y’all were nuts.”</p><p></p><p>Truly amazing engineering.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oldmachguy, post: 16882504, member: 48367"] A short, soft back NASA book on the development of the space shuttle I picked up at a Kennedy SC gift shop has like 5 pages on the SSME’s. It covers the entire effort at a high level, but focuses on the last 18 months and first flight (Young & Crippen, 1981 IIRC). Although I designed aircraft at North American I didn’t really know jack about rocket engines. When they flew the shuttle for the first time they were literally holding their breath because they honestly didn’t know the SSME’s were going to work, especially since they had had a massive failure in the test cell in Huntsville just months before. When Columbia reached MECO they actually started crying as their adrenaline crashed. One more example of “if you only knew” what the deal really was. Later, as I did some work at our Downey, CA facility and learned much more about the shuttle and its subsystems, I was literally shaking my head like, “are y’all f’n kidding me? You actually stood that thing up and lit those Roman Candle SRB’s? Y’all were nuts.” Truly amazing engineering. [/QUOTE]
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