File:S-IC engines and Von Braun.jpg

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current17:34, 3 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 17:34, 3 January 20172,415 × 3,000 (4.66 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<b>Dr. von Braun standing by five <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1" class="extiw" title="en:Rocketdyne F-1">F-1 Engines</a>.</b><br> A pioneer of America's space program, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun" title="Wernher von Braun">Dr. von Braun</a> stands by the five F-1 engines of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-500D" class="extiw" title="en:SA-500D">Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle</a> on display at the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/U.S._Space_%26_Rocket_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Space & Rocket Center">U.S. Space & Rocket Center</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huntsville,_Alabama" class="mw-redirect" title="Huntsville, Alabama">Huntsville, Alabama</a>. Designed and developed by Rocketdyne under the direction of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marshall_Space_Flight_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marshall Space Flight Center (page does not exist)">Marshall Space Flight Center</a>, a cluster of five F-1 engines was mounted on the Saturn V S-IC (first) stage. The engines measured 19-feet tall by 12.5-feet at the nozzle exit and burned 15 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene each second to produce 7,500,000 pounds of thrust. The S-IC stage is the first stage, or booster, of a 364-foot long rocket that ultimately took astronauts to the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>.
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