Talk:Bagel (disambiguation)
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Bagel was also the whimsical name suggested by pioneering rocket fuel scientist Mary Sherman Morgan, who engineered the Hydyne-LOX (Liquid OXygen) fuel combination used by North American Aviation in their early U.S. rocket designs of the incipient space race. Sherman suggested calling her new fuel invention Bagel since the Redstone propellant combination would then be called 'LOX and Bagel.' [1][2][3] Her suggested name for the new fuel was not accepted, and 'Hydyne' was chosen instead by the U.S. Army. The standard Redstone was fueled with a 75% ethyl alcohol solution, but the Jupiter-C first stage had used Hydyne fuel, a blend of 60% unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and 40% diethylenetriamine (DETA).[4] This was a more powerful fuel than ethyl alcohol, but it was also more toxic.[5]
The fuel was used with the Rocketdyne Redstone rocket only once – to launch America's first satellite Explorer I, after which it was discontinued in favor of higher performing fuels.
- ^ Lerner, Preston, "Soundings: She Put The High In Hydyne". Air & Space Smithsonian Magazine, March 2009, Vol.23, No.6, pp.10, ISSN 0886-2257.
- ^ Morgan, George America's First Lady of Rocketry, Caltech News, California Institute of Technology, Vol.42, No.1.
- ^ Morgan, George, Rocket Girl – a play about the life of America's first female rocket scientist Mary Sherman Morgan - which premiered at Caltech in Pasadena, Nov. 2008.
- ^ The Mercury-Redstone Project, p. 2-2.
- ^ The Mercury-Redstone Project, pp. 3-2, 4-42.
—LOL T/C 15:11, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
- The material has now been transferred into the primary article Hydyne, but will also be referenced on this disambiguation page. HarryZilber (talk) 01:39, 6 August 2010 (UTC)