F-1_v_bw_o_n (1958 Rocketdyne PR photo, poss. no. RKS7758 or NR-31)
“Relative size of missile [that] can be boosted with a million-pound thrust engine is shown in sketch by artist of Rocketdyne, the division of North American Aviation, Inc., which has just received an Air Force contract to build major components for the unprecedented engine. An essential step toward interplanetary exploration, the development of a single-chambered engine in the million-pound class will make a cluster of six for a six-million-pound thrust relatively easy, it was pointed out.”
The mighty F-1 engine. Accept no substitute.
The unnamed mega-missile sort of looks like a Polaris on steroids...with possibly some sort of re-entry vehicle?
Also at:
commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_one_milli...
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
www.historynet.com/apollos-stallions.htm
Credit: HISTORYNET website
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1
Credit: Wikipedia website
history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/ch4.htm
F-1_v_bw_o_n (1958 Rocketdyne PR photo, poss. no. RKS7758 or NR-31)
“Relative size of missile [that] can be boosted with a million-pound thrust engine is shown in sketch by artist of Rocketdyne, the division of North American Aviation, Inc., which has just received an Air Force contract to build major components for the unprecedented engine. An essential step toward interplanetary exploration, the development of a single-chambered engine in the million-pound class will make a cluster of six for a six-million-pound thrust relatively easy, it was pointed out.”
The mighty F-1 engine. Accept no substitute.
The unnamed mega-missile sort of looks like a Polaris on steroids...with possibly some sort of re-entry vehicle?
Also at:
commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_one_milli...
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
www.historynet.com/apollos-stallions.htm
Credit: HISTORYNET website
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1
Credit: Wikipedia website
history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/ch4.htm