Saturn C-3
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The Saturn C-3 was the third rocket in the Saturn C series studied from 1959 to 1962. The design was for a three-stage launch vehicle that could launch 45,000 kilograms to low Earth orbit and send 18,
Proposed Saturn C-3 and Apollo configuration (1962)
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Rocketdyne F-1
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The F-1 is a rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne. The engine uses a gas-generator cycle developed in the United States in the late 1950s and was used in the Saturn V rocket in the 1960s and early 19
Saturn C-3
…Finalists were two government-owned plants in St. Louis and New Orleans. The height of the factory roof at Michoud meant that a launch vehicle with eight F-1 engines (Nova class, Saturn C-8) could not be built; four or five engines (first stage) would have to be the maximum (e.g. Saturn C-5). This decision…
F-1 engine on display at Kennedy Space Center
Wernher von Braun with the F-1 engines of the Saturn V first stage at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center
Test firing of an F-1 engine at Edwards Air Force Base (The large spheres atop the platform are Horton spheres for the fuel and oxidizer).
F-1 rocket engine fuel injector.