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When the mighty Rocketdyne F-1 engine was conceived in the late 1950s for the�U.S. Air Force, it had no defined mission and there was no launch vehicle it could�power. It was a bold concept to push the technological envelope of rocket�propulsion in order to put massive payloads into Earth orbit. Few realized at the�time that the F-1 would one day propel American astronauts to the Moon.�In The Saturn V F-1 Engine, Anthony Young tells the amazing story of unbridled�vision, bold engineering, explosive failures during testing, unrelenting persistence�to find solutions, and ultimate success in launching the Saturn V with a 100 percent�success rate. The book contains personal interviews with many Rocketdyne and NASA personnel involved in the engine�s design, development, testing and production; is lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs, many never previously published is the first complete history of the most powerful rocket engine ever built. The F-1 engine remains the high point in U.S. liquid rocket propulsion � it�represents a period in American history when nothing was impossible.Typham this is the title: The Saturn V F-1 Engine Powering Apollo into History