Saturn V F-1 Engine

When the mighty Rocketdyne F-1 engine was conceived in the late 1950s for theU.S. Air Force, it had no defined mission and there was no launch vehicle it couldpower. It was a bold concept to push the technological envelope of rocketpropulsion in order to put massive payloads into Earth orbit. Few realized at thetime 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 unbridledvision, bold engineering, explosive failures during testing, unrelenting persistenceto find solutions, and ultimate success in launching the Saturn V with a 100 percentsuccess 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 - itrepresents a period in American history when nothing was impossible.