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terry wrote:
out of 10 failure rate. the engine itself was of hypergolic design, nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine which only had to come into contact to ignite. The LM worked almost flawlessly on 9 out of 9 space flights including of course Apollo 13 where it performed way above what it was designed for. terry They have the enigine on display at the Space Museum in Alamogordo, NM, and I was amazed how small it is! |
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