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The Saturn V F-1 Engine

By Anthony Young

The Saturn V F-1 Engine

By Anthony Young

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When the mighty Rocketdyne F-1 engine was conceived in the late 1950s for the U.S. Air Force, it had no defined mission and there was no launch vehicle it could power. It was a bold concept to push the technological envelope of rocket propulsion in order to put massive payloads into Earth orbit. Few realized at the time that the F-1 would one day propel American astronauts to the Moon. In The Saturn V F-1 Engine, Anthony Young tells the amazing story of unbridled vision, bold engineering, explosive failures during testing, unrelenting persistence to find solutions, and ultimate success in launching the Saturn V with a 100 percent success rate. The book contains personal interviews with many Rocketdyne and NASA personnel involved in the engine's design, development, testing and production; is lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs, many never previously published is the first complete history of the most powerful rocket engine ever built.
The F-1 engine remains the high point in U.S. liquid rocket propulsion - it represents a period in American history when nothing was impossible.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
332
Release Date:
2008-11-25
Publication Date:
2008-11-25
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0387096299
ISBN13:
9780387096292
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
570 g
Height:
170 cm
Width:
242 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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