The Saturn V F-1 Engine : Powering Apollo into History by Anthony Young

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.
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