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Daniel_Newby
on Dec 13, 2012
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Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
Rockets are a lot like skyscrapers: they burn slowly and sedately for several minutes until the structural members overheat and collapse. (Assuming kerosene fuel like the Apollo rockets used.)
caf
on Dec 14, 2012
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The upper stages used hydrogen - if that leaks (or the LOX) then your bad day is going to proceed much more rapidly.
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