For the first N-1 launch, the rocket was powered by 30 of these closed-cycle engines, each running at about 1/6 of the thrust of a Saturn V engine. Whether you’re shaking or nodding your head at ...

The “V” stood for the five giant F-1 rocket engines—still the most powerful ever built—clustered at the bottom of the Saturn V’s first stage. At one point a four-engine version ...

A decade ago, the museum unveiled pieces from the F-1 rocket engines that sent NASA’s Apollo 12 and Apollo 16 missions to the ...

And although this particular Rocketdyne F-1 engine never left Earth, it helped make possible the Saturn V launch that ... that they’re looking up at the rocket from the launch pad.

NASA launched the first stage booster of its new Saturn 1 rocket on a fourth and final test flight. This uncrewed suborbital ...