how much fuel is used when nasa flies out of space and where do they store the fuel at?
2006-06-28 11:49:14 · 5 answers · asked by cindyshady2003 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
As mentioned previously it depends on what you want to put into space. The largest lifting body was the Saturn V rocket, which put man on the Moon. It had three stages, using the following amounts of fuel:
First Stage - 810,700 liters kerosene (RP-1), 1,311,100 liters Liquid Oxygen (LOX)
Second Stage - 331,000 liters LOX, 1,000,000 liters Liquid Hydrogen
Third Stage - 92,350 liters LOX, 235,200 liters Liquid Hydrogen
There was more fuel on board for the auxiliary propulsion systems and for the various modules, but the above was the fuel used to get the payload into space and to the moon. That's a total of 3,787,350 liters of fuel, or just over 1 million gallons of liquid fuel with a fuse.
Not your basic bottle rocket.
2006-06-28 12:37:58 · answer #1 · answered by raknrun 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It takes arouned 230 Gallons of fuel to leave the atmosphere.
It takes around 46 gallons of fuel in space for 2 years.
It takes around 100 gallon sof fuel to return to the atmosphere.
There some estimates taht are really close to the actual numbers
2006-06-28 11:55:29 · answer #2 · answered by blackshadow_1_2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the payload they are lifting and the tyoe of rocket you are propeling and as for where they store the fuel i have no idea
2006-06-28 11:55:33 · answer #3 · answered by mark o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not very much at all,but it takes heaps to fly INTO space.
2006-06-28 11:53:28 · answer #4 · answered by Ron~N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bunch.
2006-07-04 14:40:38 · answer #5 · answered by CottonPatch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋