small feature on Rocketdyne F-1 engine by National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

[video: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution]

“A rocket engine is a controlled explosion. So there’s this tension between pushing the technological state of the art and also maintaining safety and reliability," Curator Tom Lassman
The F-1 engine remains the highest thrust rocket engine that NASA has ever flown (1.5 million pounds of thrust). The liquid-fueled engine was used during the Apollo program and sat at the bottom of the Saturn V.

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