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Developed during the early 1960s, the Saturn V rocket was the largest rocket in the world and the F-1 engine was the most powerful rocket engine.

“The power of one Saturn V is enough to place in earth orbit all U.S. manned spacecraft previously launched.
The F-1’s fuel pumps push fuel with the force of 30 diesel locomotives.
The five F-1 engines equal 160,000,000 horsepower, about double the amount of potential hydroelectric power that would be available at any given moment if all the moving waters of North America were channeled through turbines.” (Apollo Facts)

10 responses to “Go Baby Go”

  1. louv Avatar
    louv

    10, 9, 8, 7,…uh… time to find a new place to stand…, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, run away!!!

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  2. Apollo 11 Avatar
    Apollo 11

    Nothing quite like straping a giant firecracker to your butt and hoping for the best! Amazing what can be done when brave men and women team up with fantastic engineers and scientists.

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  3. jimheid Avatar
    jimheid

    Everything about the Apollo program both thrills me and depresses me, the latter because of how much time we’ve all but wasted since then.

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  4. Ramones Karaoke Avatar
    Ramones Karaoke

    I loved the Saturn V and the whole Apollo program. I particularly loved having to explain all the tech stuff about the moon landing to my headmaster while we watched the first moonwalk live at school almost 40 years ago. He was a 60-some year old Oxford arts graduate, I was but 9 years old, utterly working class but tech-fascinated, and we were so of different worlds. For me seeing men on the moon was way too exciting for words, for him it was some late 20th century puzzle. A deeper mystery than even steam trains or internal combustion engines.

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  5. Doug_Dirac_Delta Avatar
    Doug_Dirac_Delta

    I grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and during the summers as a kid, just about every other day I’d take the metro to the Smithsonian and enjoy the museums. My favorite was always Air and Space and I’d often look up at those Saturn V engines. The Air and Space Museum is probably the reason I’m a physicist today.

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  6. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Here is the big picture… Click for full size
    Business End of the Saturn V

    And now for something bigger….

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  7. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Jeff Bezos, March 28, 2012

    "I’m excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we’re making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor.

    NASA is one of the few institutions I know that can inspire five-year-olds. It sure inspired me, and with this endeavor, maybe we can inspire a few more youth to invent and explore."

    From Bezos Expeditions

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  8. Coffee and Computers Avatar
    Coffee and Computers

    When are you getting one of these for the office?

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  9. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    I did let Jeff know that if he can lift a third engine, I’ll take good care of it.

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  10. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    and NASA is now test firing a vintage F-1

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