Overall view of the second thrust chamber in its tub; by process of
elimination, I believe that this is the one which the U.S. Space & Rocket Center received (the
USSRC does not yet display their thrust chamber, but it is not the one retained
by the Kansas Cosmosphere
or the one sent to the National Air & Space
Museum, both of which were truncated aft of the combustion chamber
jacket, and appears to differ from the one at the Museum of
Flight).
This thrust chamber retained all or most of its regenerative cooling tubes in
its jacket and down to the throat straps,
still several inches forward of the bifurcation joint.
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