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The Saturn V F-1 Engine : Powering Apollo Into History
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- 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 bookcontains 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 publishedis 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.
- Subjects :
- Saturn launch vehicles
Rocket engines
Space vehicles--Propulsion systems
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9780387096292 and 9780387096308
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- The Saturn V F-1 Engine : Powering Apollo Into History
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 1172217