The Saturn V F-1 Engine - Powering Apollo into History (Paperback, 2008 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Space Exploration
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Anthony Young
Dimensions:	245 x 170 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	266
Edition:	2008 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-09629-2
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > Astronautics
LSN:	0-387-09629-9
Barcode:	9780387096292

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