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What is this rocket??
Found this rocket at the USS Alabama memorial in Mobile, AL. It's interesting but I have no knowledge of what this is. There was no information plaque near it either. Can anyone shed some light on this one?
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Two more photos...
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It's a Redstone missile. That's what they looked like before their tanks were elongated and a Mercury capsule dropped on top.
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Dale, you've been passing through my neck o' the woods!
Redstone, a direct descendant of the V-2... Who knows, this gate guard might have even been touched by the hand of WvB himself at some point...
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We pass thru every Thanksgiving-time on our road trip from Texas to West Virginia and South Carolina to visit family. We've been wanting to stop at the memorial park for some time now, and finally had an excuse due to our new hobby - geocaching. Maybe next time we'll actually have time to explore the ships and such further. This time we only had an hour or so to stretch our legs before moving on.
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Nice photos of that Redstone.
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The missile is missing the air vanes (which fitted into the sockets on the end of the fins), and the exhaust vanes (which fitted onto the shoes in the exhaust opening).
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It's also interesting in that the Redstone is painted with roll patterns suggesting it was (or is meant to represent) an early test model. Operational Redstones were painted green. The missile on display looks like it has been really well taken care of (freshly painted), which is nice to see.
It's also worth mentioning that the upper vanes on the Redstone (seen so nicely in these pictures) were actually guidance vanes for the warhead section. Just after burnout the missile split with the propulsion section (everything below the vanes) dropping back behind the warhead section. That's why you don't seen the upper vanes on the Jupiter Cs or Mercury Redstones. |
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