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NASA tests vintage Apollo 11 rocket engine for ideas for new US missions | Redux

NASA tests vintage Apollo 11 rocket engine for ideas for new US missions

Apollo 11 Launched Via Saturn V Rocket
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. –  A vintage rocket engine built to blast the first U.S. lunar mission into Earth's orbit more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern landscape. The engine, known to NASA engineers as No. F-6049, was supposed to help propel Apollo 11 into orbit in 1969, when NASA sent Neil Armstrong and two other astronauts to the moon for the first time. The flight went off without a hitch, but no thanks to the engine -- it was grounded because of a glitch during a test in Mississippi and later sent to the Smithsonian Institution, where it sat for years.

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