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A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I took a first trip on the Mooney to visit the rocket museum at Huntsville, Alabama. I'm happy to say she thought the trip was reasonabe; she didn't hate flying in the Mooney. Yay!
It was both of our first time there; we were only there a couple of
hours, but it was neat trip. We saw some pretty cool artifacts.
Here's me beneath the business-end of a Saturn-5 rocket that's stacked outside the
museum.
It's immense. For some reasons the Saturn 5s I've seen inside on
their side (at Huntsville and at Cape Canaveral in Florida) dont' seem
as big as the one outside that's upright.
That's a massive showerhead!
Not really--it's an early fuel/oxidiser injector for an F-1 rocket
engine; 5 of those engines powered the Saturn-5 first stage.
We rented a car to drive from the local municipal airport to the
museum. It was a Lincoln SUV. Very nice, the panel was really slick
and had a nice digital turn-on sequence.
It drove nicely, and was very comfortable. However, I found the
environmental controls difficult to use. It took us 10 minutes to
figure out how to turn on the air conditioning.
Oh, and I never really thought of why it was called the Redstone
missle or the Redstone arsenal. Becky pointed out the dirt--and
that's probably why.
