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most powerful rocket engine

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At the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, a team of young NASA engineers are disassembling, examining, reassembling, and firing the F-1 — the most powerful rocket engine ever built by the United States. With five F-1 engines, Saturn V, which first launched in 1967, is still the largest and most powerful rocket ever created. Each F-1 engine burned 3,357 gallons (12,710 liters) of propellant every second.

Ok less blah, it's not rocket science (well it is), more stuff, watch the videos:


 
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Now that is one big rocket. And to think it took 5 of them:eek:
 
Why are they doing this? If they're not intending to use it to put something in space, they're wasting money.
 
Space Shuttle engines (SSME's) are tiny compared to those!!!

Even the fuel pump on that thing is massive :eek:
*Hint- turbine that runs the fuel pump is 55,000 hp :D
 
dem flames... :D

A fine example of technology. But damn, hundreds of thousands of liters of propellant burnt in just a few seconds! :eek:
 
But can it run...
 
I remember having one of these in my Ford Festiva. :P
 
terrible gas mileage
 
Whatever...I got there in less than 5 minutes. ;)
 
Yup. The hardest was the braking and steering.
 
NASA has launched Atlas 5 rocket today. Would like to post it here:

The U.S. space agency's first launch of 2013, the new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite K (TDRS-K for short) soared spaceward atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 8:48 p.m. EST (0148 Jan. 31 GMT).


Liftoff is always amazing.

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