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AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND SPACE PROPULSION CONCEPTS Video of the AIO-50 Banquet. Al Reisz (second speaker), speaks on the importance of space funding. Reisz Engineers engine development capabilities included work on the J2 Liquid Hydrogen Engine from the 1960s Saturn V program. Specifically, this work included calculating optimum fuel-oxidizer mixture valve shift times and cutoff times during Saturn V engine firings. Click here to view a video of the Saturn V launch into space. Reisz Engineers assisted Boeing in the Assault Breaker Missile Project. Reisz Engineers has experience from the 1970s Skylab program that was built from the Saturn V third stage and used photovoltaic panels to provide mission electricity. "Engines for the Cosmos: Exploration of deep space requires systems of propulsion that can go the distance." By Aloysius I. Reisz and Stephen L. Rogers, From Mechanical Engineering, January 2003. Space Engine Designed by Reisz Engineers Resistive heaters simulate the thermodynamics of a fission reactor, without using nuclear materials, in an experiment at NASA Marshall's Propulsion Research Center. An artist's conception of a high power plasma propulsion device using a fusion energy source; the large radiators are needed to dispose of excess heat. Although it's a long way from ready, fusion power may possibly see its first practical use in space, rather than in Earth-bound power plants. It's a long way to Jupiter, and fossil fuels aren't likely to get us there. As new technologies drive voyages of the future, they may do more than cross the reaches of space; they may improve our way of life on Earth, as well. |