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From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: For All Mankind [was Re: center engine out]
Message-ID: <3513@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Sep 90 08:58:08 GMT
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From article <15953@wpi.WPI.EDU>, by megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MEGAZONE 23):
> In article <3498@syma.sussex.ac.uk> nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) writes:
>>2) Saturn V first stage uses liquid hydrogen
> 
> I was under the impression that it DID burn LH2 and LOX.
In case any one else is under same impression, SIC used Kerosene & LOX,
upper stages (SII & SIVB) *only* used LOX & LH2. I think shuttle (&
Energia core ?) are only cases of LH2 being used in stages which ignite
on the ground, please correct me if I'm wrong. 

Nick
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