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Name of Image: F-1
Engine
Full Description: "This close-up view of the F-1 engine for the
Saturn V S-IC (first) stage shows the engine complexity, and also its
large size as it dwarfs the technician. Developed by Rocketdyne, under
the direction of the Marshall Space Flight Center, the F-1 engine was
utilized in a cluster of five engines to propel the Saturn first stage,
the S-IC. Liquid oxygen and kerosene were used as its propellant.
Initially rated at 1,500,000 pounds of thrust, the engine was later
uprated to 1,522,000 pounds of thrust after the third Saturn V launch
(Apollo 8, the first manned Saturn V mission) in December 1968. The
cluster of five F-1 engines burned over 15 tons of propellant per
second, during its two and one-half minutes of operation, to take the
vehicle to a height of about 36 miles and to a speed of about 6,000
miles per hour. "
Source:
http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/ |
