Reddit - Please wait for verificationhttps://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/eboq6/the_space_shuttle_main_engine_amazing_read/The three SSMEs running at 100% throttle put out as much power as 23 Hoover Dams
The SSMEs operate over the largest range of temperatures of any machine ever built.
The turbo fuel pumps, each about the size of a big-block V8 engine produce as much power as 40 diesel locomotives.
If you placed the inlet pipe of a single turbo fuel pump into an average family-sized swimming pool, it would empty the pool in less than 6 seconds. And if you directed the outlet vertically, it would pump a column of water 50 km (30 miles) into the air.
JON: nikde jsem nenasel officialni datasheet, ale podle vseho se tento funfact pouzival pro obhajobu financovani programu Space Shuttle. Tech 160 je bullshit za to se omlouvam, budu vice opatrny