2848 x 4287 px | 24,1 x 36,3 cm | 9,5 x 14,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
11. April 2012
Ort:
Merritt Island Florida USA
Weitere Informationen:
The Rocket Garden at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island Florida has on display historic NASA rockets and engines. This is the massive and powerful F-1 engine for the first stage of the Saturn V rocket which used five engines to provide initial thrust for the huge payloads required for the Apollo lunar missions. The Saturn V rocket was the largest operational launch vehicle ever produced. Standing 36 stories high and weighing over 6 million pounds and with a cluster of five F-1 engines, generating more than 7.5 million pounds of thrust propelled the rocket to a speed of 6, 000 mph and an altitude of 38 miles in just under 3 minutes. It was said at the time that, except for a nuclear explosion, the launching of the Saturn V rocket was the loudest man made noise ever produced. Just one F-1 engine provided as much thrust as all 3 Space Shuttle main engines combined.