When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket ... 2.5 seconds. It fell around 184 feet away from ...

The “V” stood for the five giant F-1 rocket ... burning F-1 engine, exhaling fire in a 1960 static test, was in development even before the Saturn V. The nozzle measured 12.5 feet across ...

Because of this, he sought a new manufacturer for rocket engines, and he found one in Nikolai Kuznetsov. In a Saturn V rocket ... Shortly thereafter, work began on a new engine, the RD-180.

each time producing 1.5 million pounds of thrust. And although this particular Rocketdyne F-1 engine never left Earth, it helped make possible the Saturn V launch that would carry astronauts to ...