Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Some facts:
"The Apollo Command Module uses about 2000 watts of energy, about as much as a household oven. "
"The five F-1 engines equaled 160,000,000 horsepower, about double the amount of potential hydroelectric power that would be available at any given moment if all the moving waters of North America were channeled through turbines. "
"The F-1's (main engine) fuel pumps pushed fuel with the force of 30 diesel locomotives. "
"When the Apollo spacecraft reentered the atmosphere it generated energy equivalent to approximately 86,000 kilowatt hours of electricity - enough to light the city of Los Angeles for about 104 seconds; or the energy generated would lift all the people in the USA 10-3/4 inches off the ground. "
"There are approximately 2-1/2 million solder joints in the Saturn V launch vehicle. If just 1/32 of an inch too much wire were left on each of these joints and an extra drop of solder was used on each of these joints, the excess weight would be equivalent to the payload of the vehicle. "
"Earth parking orbit was about 115 miles in altitude"
"Lunar parking orbit was 60 miles in altitude"
Quoted from Apogee Books' "Virtual Apollo" and www.boeing.com, see link here
http://www.boeing.com/news/feature/apollo11/factoids.html
Questions:
Does anyone know why some of the modules were called "boilerplates"?
Does anyone know what lunar orbit velocity was?
Enjoy!
Nick
"The Apollo Command Module uses about 2000 watts of energy, about as much as a household oven. "
"The five F-1 engines equaled 160,000,000 horsepower, about double the amount of potential hydroelectric power that would be available at any given moment if all the moving waters of North America were channeled through turbines. "
"The F-1's (main engine) fuel pumps pushed fuel with the force of 30 diesel locomotives. "
"When the Apollo spacecraft reentered the atmosphere it generated energy equivalent to approximately 86,000 kilowatt hours of electricity - enough to light the city of Los Angeles for about 104 seconds; or the energy generated would lift all the people in the USA 10-3/4 inches off the ground. "
"There are approximately 2-1/2 million solder joints in the Saturn V launch vehicle. If just 1/32 of an inch too much wire were left on each of these joints and an extra drop of solder was used on each of these joints, the excess weight would be equivalent to the payload of the vehicle. "
"Earth parking orbit was about 115 miles in altitude"
"Lunar parking orbit was 60 miles in altitude"
Quoted from Apogee Books' "Virtual Apollo" and www.boeing.com, see link here
http://www.boeing.com/news/feature/apollo11/factoids.html
Questions:
Does anyone know why some of the modules were called "boilerplates"?
Does anyone know what lunar orbit velocity was?
Enjoy!
Nick
