LARGE LIQUID PROPELLANT ROCKET ENGINES 1960s ROCKETDYNE PROMO FILM SATURN V F-1 ENGINE 88954

This brief film takes a look at Rocketdyne, the American rocket engine design and production company founded in 1955. It shows the engines they produced for the Saturn V launch vehicle and provides an in depth look at the newly designed nozzle. It is presented by Rocketdyne (:10). The film opens with the information that the Rocketdyne liquid propellant engines have been reliable in support of the national military and civilian aerospace programs (:25). The Saturn V vehicle (:34). Rocketdyne had developed two propulsion systems for this vehicle. The first is the high thrust kerosene fuel engine (:38) and the second being the high energy hydrogen fueled engine. The first stage of the moon rocket is powered by five F1 liquid repellant oxygen kerosene rocket engines (:46) and each of these produces more than 100,500,000 tons of thrust (:53). This engine was also the highest liquid propellant engine that had been developed thus far (1:09). The second stage was powered by five of their J-2 engines (1:14) and the t