The Saturn V F-1 Engine

The Saturn V F-1 Engine
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 0387096299
ISBN-13 : 9780387096292
Rating : 4/5 (292 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Saturn V F-1 Engine by : Anthony Young

Download or read book The Saturn V F-1 Engine written by Anthony Young and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The launch of Sputnik in 1957 not only began the space age, it also showed that Soviet rockets were more powerful than American ones. Within months, the US Air Force hired Rocketdyne for a feasibility study of an engine capable of delivering at least 1 million pounds of thrust. Later, NASA ran the development of this F-1 engine in order to use it to power the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that would send Apollo missions to the Moon. It is no exaggeration to say that without the F-1 engine NASA would not have been able to achieve President Kennedy’s 1961 challenge to his nation to land a man on the Moon before the decade was out.


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