Mercury Atlas vernier motor, Truax variant.jpg
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English: Assembled in 1960, this Mercury Atlas vernier motor, (Rocketdyne LR101), provides attitude adjustment during the rocket’s launch. It has many of elements of the liquid fuel engines that later powered the Apollo and SpaceX rockets– with regenerative cooling of the nozzle, electric igniter, RP1 and LOX valves, and dual pistons for directional pointing. |
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Mercury Atlas Vernier Motor — Truax Variant
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| Author | Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA |
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| current | 10:57, 18 March 2012 | | 3,582 × 5,370 (4.48 MB) | wikimediacommons>File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske) | {{Information |Description=Today is the 50th anniversary of the first American in orbit, John Glenn flying a Mercury Atlas. Basically, he strapped himself atop a modified ICBM and circled the Earth three times. So I thought it would be timely to shar... |
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