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   Len Lekx to foo@bar.baz.invalid.retro.com   
   Re: LH2/LOX in the first stage   
   07 Jan 05 18:03:00   
   
   From: LFLekx@NOSPAM.rogers.com.retro.com   
      
   On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:38:58 GMT, Rick Jones   
    wrote:   
      
   >> liquid-oxygen tank has enough volume to be filled with the necessary   
   >> amount of JP-5 kerosene to burn it all.  (Plus some extra...)   
   >Either way, if there is left-over kerosene in the ET (asuming I've   
   >interpreted the "plus some extra" correctly) doesn't that mean a small   
   >"oil slick" wherever it lands?   
      
      Actually, I was talking about extra volume in the tank.  Kerosene   
   would occupy 340,000 liters of the 504,000-liter tank.  :-)   
      
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