H-1 Turbine

One of Mark Wells' heaviest artifacts is an H-1 engine turbopump turbine. Surprisingly heavy, it was definitely an effort to move this from where he displayed it to where I photographed it. He also has a separate first-stage turbine wheel.

Attached to the turbine's housing is a bellows. This differs from the turbine on the cut-away H-1 engine at the Kansas Cosmosphere, which has no such bellows. That engine is an H-1D, or outboard, engine; I believe that the turbine on the later-model H-1C, or inboard, engine was similarly arranged. By process of elimination, it seems likely that this turbine is from an earlier H-1C engine, which used a longer duct to vent the turbine exhaust to the periphery of the tail unit.

To see a turbine attached to an H-1 rocket engine and its turbopump, see my photos of the H-1 engine by the Marshall Space Flight Center Static Test Tower. The H-1 engine used a Rocketdyne Mark 3 turbopump, which was also used by the S-3D rocket engine; for the Mark 3 turbopump turbine from an S-3D, see my photos of the S-3D engine turbine at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.