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We’re here in the propulsion

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development lab here at Marshall

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Space Flight Center, and this

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is the F-1 engine.  Engine 6049

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is what its destination is. It

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was originally slated for the

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Apollo 11 flight. However due

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to an anomaly on a stage test,

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it was recycled and planned for

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a future test that was

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cancelled so this is how we

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were able to have it today for

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our testing. After we

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disassembled the first engine,

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we started looking at components

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that we would like to potentially

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test, and the first part that we

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looked at was the gas generator

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system, which is the part that

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drives the turbine on the engine

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and provides the propellants to

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the injector. We pulled the gas

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generator off, which is located

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here on the engine and disassembled

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it and refurbished it, and its now

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located in Test Stand 116 for

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hot-fire testing. We will be

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running the F-1 gas generator

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test using a heritage gas

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generator and running it with

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liquid oxygen and RP-1. We took

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this engine apart, and we’re

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testing it to develop the

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performance models and the

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combustion stability models

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as well as the combustion

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properties so that we can

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influence designs in the future

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for the Space Launch System. For

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future work in SLS, one of the

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biggest things we’re looking at

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is manufacturability. How can

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we do things easier and cheaper

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and faster. This provides a

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great opportunity. Taking the F-1,

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which is one of the biggest

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engines, you know, that America

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has ever made, to be able to take

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that and look at the components

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and look for how can we do rapid

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prototyping, rapid manufacturing

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to reinvent these or make design

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changes. How do we speed up that

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whole process when we are going

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to design an engine and test it?

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The data that we’re going to

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collect from our F-1 gas generator

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test program, we’ll be able to

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share with the U.S. aerospace

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industry to develop engines like

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this in the future. The best part

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of this project for me as been

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being able to take an engine from

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the start, take it down to its

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bare bones, clean it up, go in

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and inspect it as best we could,

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and then reassemble it and see it

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get to the point of being hot

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fired. So this is the first time

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that I’ve been involved in a test

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like this. And knowing all the

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history and seeing it come apart,

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and being involved from the very

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beginning, and seeing it go back

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together and out on to the test

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stand is something that I’m really