RIFT: 2

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Mar 282011
 

Artwork depicting the testing of the RIFT stage as seen by NASA in 1962. Wacky hijinks would surely ensue if the rocket went off course and dumped the reactor in Castros lap.

 Posted by at 7:59 pm

  3 Responses to “RIFT: 2”

  1. Pat Flannery says:
    March 28, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    Okay, this time it’s time it has two peripheral rows of cylindrical objects around the top of the stage in the second illustration; what are they? Parachutes for stage recovery?

  2. R2K says:
    March 30, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    Instrument Unit? : )

  3. Pat Flannery says:
    March 30, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    Whatever they are, they are pretty big when compared to the person in the illustration…around four feet long by a foot in diameter.
    It hard to tell whether there are two rings of them one above another, or we are seeing the front and back of a single ring.
    Could they be batteries?
    The little vernier engines hanging off the stages’ bottom are interesting also; are they to aid separation or do they aid in steering?

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