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Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Apollo Lunar Module Descent Engine

Space Technology Laboratories (STL)

This is a Descent Engine designed by Space Technology Laboratories as used on the Project Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LM) to land on the Moon. The engine could be throttled between 1,000 and 10,000 pounds of thrust and was also the first gimballed and throttable rocket engine used on a spacecraft.

Type

PROPULSION-Rocket Engines

Medium

Nozzle, phenolic ablative liner; propellant lines, stainless steel; valves, stainless steel; injector, aluminum.

Department

NASM

Institution

National Air and Space Museum

Object number

nasm_A19720824000

Credit

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration