The Saturn V F-1 Engine

Powering Apollo into History

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
266 Seiten
2008
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-09629-2 (ISBN)

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The Saturn V F-1 Engine - Anthony Young
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NASA's development of the F-1 engine made landing on the moon possible. This book chronicles the history of this amazing engine, from its design and manufacture to its eventual discarding at the conclusion of the Apollo program.
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.

Anthony Young's first automotive book, published in 1984, became the best-selling automotive title sold in America within three months of its publication, according to Auto Week magazine.  His first Springer-Praxis book, Lunar and Planetary Rovers: The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars will be published in the fall of 2006. He is a regular contributor to Space Times magazine and the online weekly website, The Space Review.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.11.2008
Reihe/Serie Space Exploration
Springer Praxis Books
Zusatzinfo 234 Illustrations, black and white; XXXII, 266 p. 234 illus.
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 242 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Weltraum / Astronomie
Technik Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10 0-387-09629-9 / 0387096299
ISBN-13 978-0-387-09629-2 / 9780387096292
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