Location
Cocoa Beach, FL
Start Date
5-4-1965 8:00 AM
Description
On December 20, 196^, NASA announced, "The F-l Rocket Engine, the most powerful being developed by the United States, has completed its flight rating test, and is now ready for cluster firings and actual flight.
The engine that completed FRT consists of a single thrust chamber, injector and dome, a single direct drive turbopump, a single gas generator, two each fuel pump discharge lines and control valves and also lox pump discharge lines and control valves, and a single start valve. The start valve is the only major engine part requiring electrical energy as a control device. Instrumentation to monitor engine operation during flight also requires electrical energy "but is independent of engine operation. This engine system is in accordance with the reliability design concept that highest overall engine reliability is achieved by using the minimum number of parts. The FRT engine resulted from this concept combined with previous Rocketdyne engine experience and advanced metallurgy.
Saturn V Booster - The F-1 Engine
Cocoa Beach, FL
On December 20, 196^, NASA announced, "The F-l Rocket Engine, the most powerful being developed by the United States, has completed its flight rating test, and is now ready for cluster firings and actual flight.
The engine that completed FRT consists of a single thrust chamber, injector and dome, a single direct drive turbopump, a single gas generator, two each fuel pump discharge lines and control valves and also lox pump discharge lines and control valves, and a single start valve. The start valve is the only major engine part requiring electrical energy as a control device. Instrumentation to monitor engine operation during flight also requires electrical energy "but is independent of engine operation. This engine system is in accordance with the reliability design concept that highest overall engine reliability is achieved by using the minimum number of parts. The FRT engine resulted from this concept combined with previous Rocketdyne engine experience and advanced metallurgy.
