[Islander7]

About a dozen F-1 engines remain in Huntsville, home of NASA's main propulsion center, and others are located elsewhere. Most are on display; Case said engineers used engine No. F-6049 for the tests because it was the most complete.

"It is really an excellent booster," he said. "The guys in Apollo had it right."

[TomServo]

I was raised in Huntsville and it was great to hear the test firings as a boy. And 45 years later I’ve returned and it’s great to hear ‘em again.

[RFEngineer]

Now that we’re done wasting our time on Shuttle flights, we can get back to actual space exploration.

At least one guy at NASA understands. I doubt he’s got too much company

[Army Air Corps]

Designed and built at a time when NASA was focused on things like space exploration rather than being a shill for the anthropogenic global warming scam.

[Jonty30]

I’m just wondering if there’s a way to use Earth’s rotation to help leave orbit, without such large booster rockets?

Conceptually speaking, if you could go straight up, while the Earth rotates below, you’d eventually could go into space.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Is that engine powerful enough for Muslim outreach? /s

[ExGeeEye]

This one is in the National Air and Space Museum in WDC. The mirrors around it simulate the presence of the cluster of five of them at the bottom of the Saturn V vehicle.

[donaldo]

Commander Borman is wrong here. As stated previously those thirsty F-1s consumed 15 tons (yes, that’s 30,000 lbs.) of propellants per second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzCsDVfPQqk

[Kozak]

This is great news. I had read that ALL the technical plans for the Apollo project were gone.

[Moonman62]

They began work on the F1 in the 1950’s and I believe they had done significant work on a 2 million pound thrust version by the time Apollo was scrapped.

[central_va]

First Law of Rocketry - While the engine is running at no time can the pressure in the expansion chamber ever exceed the out pressure of the main fuel pump.

[donaldo]

Check this out. Those five F-1s produced 160,000,000 horsepower!

http://www.apollosaturn.com/facts_figs.htm

[rollo tomasi]

Kim Jong Un’s program is running circles around Obama’s leadership when it comes to space exploration, lol. The electorate sure know how to pick out “progress”.

[Lexinom]

The bell-shaped motor...

Motor? Who wrote this?

[dr_lew]

"It is really an excellent booster," he said. "The guys in Apollo had it right."

When the rocket goes up
we will win great renown,
"It's an excellent booster,"
said Wernher Von Braun !

[Last Dakotan]

God I miss what this country once was...

[a fool in paradise]

If we put some wheels on the unused Saturn V rocket and the Apollo 11 engine and took it to the salt tracks. How fast do you reckon we could go?

[GreyFriar]

I thought all of them had been destroyed per Nixon’s order.

[rottndog]

Saturn V Launch Slow Motion (launch pad view)

[lwoodham]

When I was a teenager I remember hearing the Saturn V engine tests from my hometown 50 miles from Huntsville. Those things shook the ground good if you were close. I had the good fortune of seeing a shuttle main engine live test firing in Huntsville a few years back. There is no way to adequately describe that experience with words. I was shell shocked when it was over.

[Nailbiter]

bflr