Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Radiamic; also Designated C-1; Cutaway
Large bell-shaped nozzle with much smaller constricted nozzle throat at other end and adjoining smaller combustion chamber on top; cooling jacket, around length of combustion chamber and throat; bi-propellant inlet pipes at end of combustion chamber, with adjoining solenoid valve and electrical wire with white plastic insulation; two-thirds of motor cutaway from top of combustion chamber to mid-point along length of the nozzle, showing the internal passages of the two pass cooling jacket and half the interior of the nozzle; nozzle, probably steel; plumbing, gold plated; mounted on recatangular wooden stand with black plastic label, reading "C-1 Radiamic Engine S/M-LEM Thiokol Chemical Corporation Reaction Motors Division."
Created by
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Date Created
02/04/2022
Source
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Keywords
Engines; Rockets; Space
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