Liquid Rocket Engines (J-2X, RS-25, general)

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Inside The J-2X Doghouse: Performance Measurement, Part 1 of 2 Sep 14, 2012 09:28:12 AM | William D. Greene
 
My first job after graduate school it was doing test data reduction and performance calculations for the Space Shuttle Main Engine. How cool is that? Trust me: very cool.
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Inside The J-2X Doghouse: Beyond the Gas Generator Cycle Aug 08, 2012 10:01:42 AM | William D. Greene
 
Okay, I admit it: I'm a sucker for the Olympics. I watch with rapt attention to sporting events that I would otherwise never consider viewing other than under the once-every-four-years heading of the Olympics. Why is that?
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Inside The J-2X Doghouse: Engine Control -- Open versus Closed Loop Aug 24, 2011 02:59:30 PM | William D. Greene
 
As I was driving to work this morning, I came up over a rise and saw suddenly appear in my windshield, over towards the left on the other side of the road, a police cruiser with a radar gun mounted in the window.
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J-2X Progress: Valves, Commands into Action Jan 25, 2011 11:54:43 AM | William D. Greene
 
Everyone seems to like analogies between the composition of a rocket engine and that of the human body --and in some cases, they work pretty well!
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J-2X Extra: The Faces Behind J-2X, NASA MSFC, Part 1 Jan 20, 2011 12:06:04 PM | William D. Greene
 
An introduction to just a few of the people -- out of hundreds -- responsible for making J-2X engine a reality.
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Inside The J-2X Doghouse: The Gas-Generator Cycle Engine Dec 15, 2010 10:51:58 AM | William D. Greene
 
How do you provide enough propellant to move something like, say, the Saturn V that was over 300 feet tall and weighing millions of pounds? That's where things get interesting.
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Inside the J-2X Doghouse: What is a Rocket? Nov 10, 2010 12:48:26 PM | William D. Greene
 
Want to be an honorary Datadog? Come inside the "J-2X Doghouse" to learn more about rockets and rocket engines.
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