a_v_bw_o_n (original 1966 Rocketdyne-NAA publicity photo, no. ENG 731)

“This is the most powerful rocket engine in production in the United States. It is the F-1, which will be used in the Saturn 5 first stage (S-IC) in a cluster of five engines developing 7.5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. The Saturn 5 will carry astronauts to the moon before 1970.”

 

Note the numerous anti-theft tags on the F-1's thrust chamber - to thwart any would-be shoplifter from rolling off with it.

And...I think that's Michael Rennie at its base! Good to see he got a regular gig at NAA after "TDTESS" and the epic "Lost In Space: The Keeper" two-parter!

 

See/read also:

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4205/ch7-6.html

 

Excellent F-1 reading:

 

www.thespacereview.com/article/3724/1

Credit: The Space Review website

 

Also:

 

alternatewars.com/SpaceRace/SP-4205/images/c184a.jpg

 

With the following description/caption:

 

"The F-1 engine at upper left, one of five fitted into the Saturn V's S-IC first stage, being prepared at the Rocketdyne plant in California for shipment to the Michoud launch vehicle assembly plant in Louisiana."

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