The Rocketdyne F-1 is a liquid propellant rocket engine Rocketdyne developed in the late 1950s for NASA's heaviest lift needs, remaining the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid propellant rocket engine ever developed. Five F-1 engines powered the S-IC first stage of every Saturn V, the launch vehicle of the Apollo program, and their combined thrust was essential to lifting the payloads that carried astronauts to the Moon.
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Fuel or Cycle In the Other Atlases
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Also in Business Atlas: the manufacturer of this subject.
Sources
1. Rocketdyne F-1 (Wikipedia)
Infobox: fuel
RP-1
Infobox: first_date
November 9, 1967 (Apollo 4)
In Group: Rocket Engines, Lead sentence
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 1970s.
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