turbo-pump

Konrad took great delight in showing me that the similarities with the Space Shuttle main engines, and the big difference of having two different speeds on the turbo-pump.

Konrad Dannenberg - NASA Watch 2009

Including every burn, every turbo-pump, and every little nuance (which I'm a huge fan of) would have caused the video to be 25 minutes long and ten times more costly to develop.

Today's video: Going to the Moon - NASA Watch 2008

The inner-bearing race on its oxidizer turbo-pump had cracked.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

I had imagined many scenarios in which my life could be threatened as an astronaut—engine failures, turbo-pump explosions, decompression—but I had never imagined a threat from a frozen block of urine.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

There was an SSME failure awaiting me, an APU fire, a turbo-pump ready to fly into a million pieces.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

I had imagined many scenarios in which my life could be threatened as an astronaut—engine failures, turbo-pump explosions, decompression—but I had never imagined a threat from a frozen block of urine.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

The inner-bearing race on its oxidizer turbo-pump had cracked.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

HadColumbia launched, there was a good chance the jammed valve could have caused a turbo-pump to overspeed and disintegrate during the engine shutdown sequence at MECO.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

There was an SSME failure awaiting me, an APU fire, a turbo-pump ready to fly into a million pieces.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

HadColumbia launched, there was a good chance the jammed valve could have caused a turbo-pump to overspeed and disintegrate during the engine shutdown sequence at MECO.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006