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Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?
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Wait I want information about the inventor of the bicycle.
I will trade you for info dump on the Atlas rocket. It was a ballistic missile for the air force, but since it used liquid oxygen fuel it wasn't a good missile, liquid oxygen boils off from the fuel tank at ambient condition. So instead it was used as a space rocket, notably for the Mercury program.
It's a unique rocket, because early rocket engine couldn't be turned on in flight is used a stage and a half system, where the central engine is an efficient, long burning, engine. And then a pair of more powerful shorter life engines are mounted on a discardable skirt. All three engines share the same central fuel tank, and are turned on at takeoff. Around 2min in flight, the booster engines are discarded. This means the central fuel tank has to go all the way to orbit so it had to be very light.
Karel Bossart, the designer of the Atlas rocket came up with a solution for ultra light fuel tanks. Balloon tanks, fuel tanks that instead of being held up by steel or aluminum structure, are held up by the pressure of the fuel inside. Which was also used on the Titan family of rockets. And led to a few funny incidents where the rocket collapse on themselves comically because they can't support themselves on the launch pad with empty fuel tanks.
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