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 USAir 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 Vrocket 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. The first book devoted to the development of the RocketdyneF-1 engine and its integration into the five-engine cluster that would power the first stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle Includes many never-before-published photographs, both color and black and white, during the development and testing of the F-1 engine INDICE: Foreword.- Author’s Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of Illustrations.- Origins and F-1 Engine Development.- From Nova to Saturn: Evolution of the Moon Rocket.- Manufacturing the F-1 Engine at Rocketdyne.- Boeing and the Saturn V S-IC Stage.- Testing the F-1 and S-IC Stage.- The Apollo Saturn V Launches.- The Engine that Might Been: the F-1A and its Legacy.- Appendix.- Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-09629-2
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés