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Destination - Moon — the Design and Fabrication of the Centaur Nose Cone
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This article describes the NASA's Centaur nose cone. It discusses its purpose, the loads and temperatures to which it will be subjected, the materials from which it was fabricated, and some of the design and fabrication problems involved. Testing of the raw materials and the finished part is also discussed.