[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."

[fso301]

My uncle said the noise from a Saturn V launch was much louder than that of the Shuttle.

[clearcarbon]

"About a dozen F-1 engines remain in Huntsville, home of NASA's main propulsion center

Lucky they were spared the "cash-for-clunkers" fiasco.

[2001convSVT]

Thanks for posting.

[Resolute Conservative]

Sadly this new generation of “engineers” are too busy making the next “big thing” to enable social media to be the panacea of all the worlds woes.

The brains of the 40-60’s generation did more with a slide rule, pencil, and a pad of paper than their successors can do with the latest macbook or desktop. We sent men to the moon with computers with a fraction of the computing power and storage of your kid’s iPod. It is a funny how most of the software engineers we hire under the age of 30 have no knowledge of how the system actually works. Everything comes in a 4th generation prepackaged application. They can make objects and flashy UI stuff but without the developer tools cannot really tell you how it happens under the hood.

[hattend]

BTTT

[timestax]

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The nuclear rocket prototypes built in the 1960’s provide more thrust for less fuel.

Not sure what difference it makes. We don’t have a manned space program anyway.