Probably has to do with the a number of factors, including expansion and contraction due to thermal extremes of the orbital day/night cycle, could be a propellant lifespans or long term storage concerns, might be a battery lifespan issue. Could be a number of things. All usually driven by safety margins and engineers.

You're forgetting one thing though... we did much the same thing at the end of the Apollo program. Apollo was essentially dead in the water, fiscally speaking, immediately after we landed Apollo 11. Left over hardware was utilized for Skylab and ASTP, but those were shoehorned in to make Nixon look like he did…

I see what you mean.... but my brain still sees it as "revoution"!

Am I the only one that noticed "Revoution" before I noticed "Sates?"

Just took a 10 day trip to Maui where we rented a condo. It was sort of stocked with stuff. The one thing I wish I would have brought with me? My knife. Had to go out and buy one while I was there. The knives were so bad I could (and did) whack the palm of my hand with the "edge" with no damage to even the topmost…

Andrew: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama, not Lousiana. #corrections

F-1 and all other US human spaceflight regeneratively cooled engines pump the fuel through. This I know because a very nice set of propellant flow diagrams at work. I don't know the "why" though.

I think it has some decent competition for that title...

Interesting! I always thought the LOX to RP-1 ratio was tuned for combustion efficiency (and stability). I thought most of the cooling took place in the riblets which ran the length of the nozzle and nozzle extension before being pumped into the hot-gas manifold.

Unfortunately not, this is a LOX/RP-1 engine. RP-1 is a kerosene distillate. Still pretty clean though, as the combustion is pretty efficient.

I'm amazed at how many little details they got right in this illustration!

He had the magic combo vision, technical skill, ambition and (maybe most important) charisma!

From the product page: "Suitable for gas, electric, ceramic and halogen hobs. Oven safe up to 205°C." It also says it works best with gas. I would venture that this would be less efficient than a standard pot on anything but a gas top.

I love their Lilly Flagg Milk Stout... Some of their new cask aged stuff is pretty good as well!

in regards to it's usefulness... That's debatable. I have loaded and unloaded an exhibit from the 2nd and 3rd floors of this building. It's a logistical nightmare. The freight elevator only goes from -2 (below ground basement) to 1st, and has only a narrow space where it can be unloaded on first, limiting the size of…

The is a large than expected space between the interior and exterior shells. However, the eighth floor in the peak of the highest point does go within about 10 meters of the top of the windows, and it is completely viewable from the eighth floor.

The is a large than expected space between the interior and exterior shells. However, the eighth floor in the peak of the highest point does go within about 10 meters of the top of the windows, and it is completely viewable from the eighth floor.

Set in Georgia, filmed in in Georgia and South Carolina... *sheesh*

Got some pics of a 1:3 scale BA 330 and a lunar colony... the long unit with the tanks is a propulsion module. (Donated to our museum via the kindness of Bigelow for our commercial space exhibits)

"entry-interface... sensors off-scale low.... shi-brzzzztk...."