>Malcolm Walker <walker05@camosun.bc.ca> wrote:
>As for Apollo 13, I don't think the Saturn V ran on premium pump gas.
The first stage if the Saturn V ran, in fact, on kerosene ( and liquid
oxygen )
>It *was* a fuel cell that blew up (I saw the movie!!), but the actual
spark
>was from one of the components that stirred the liquid gases.
Here fuel cell means something different. The Apollo fuel cells reacted
hydrogen and oxygen in the presence of a catalyst to produce water and
electricity.
Stuart Steele
1969 TR6
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