Rocket Engine Test Rocketdyne California

[Polybun]

doesn't really look like an F-1 engine

[d3u1d4e]

Is all that water being released for acoustic damping?

[monimstarfox]

@d3u1d4e

hm could be but the most obvious reason i can see is so nothing lights up on fire

[krebsderek]

@d3u1d4e Yes it is

[jackdean1933]

This is Alfa 2 test stand. I was development engineer on Atlas 2 in 1956 on this stand.

[MondoMovie1977]

Cancer.

[USAmerican100]

Looks like the dude just about lost his camera when it lit up!!

[oisiaa]

Rockets are insane. The power is almost unfathomable!

[watchress]

Wow, that was awesome. I've lived here in Simi for 40 years, just below the Rocketdyne plant. I always wanted to see that. The testing, as a child, seemed like a daily occurence. We had drills in school, should the plant have a disaster of some kind. Part of a childhood memory. Thanks for sharing.

[socalspade21]

ya i remember that used to shake the walls and windows it was intense and i lived over by sinaloa street so farthest from it almost and still was awesome