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to the nation were the mightiest rocket

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power belongs the conquest of space

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shortly after its establishment in 1958

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NASA the National Aeronautics and Space

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Administration began the job of creating

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rocket power capable of thrusting

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skyward a spaceship weighing 3,000 tons

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how much is three thousand tons as much

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as this nuclear submarine or two dozen

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jet airliners fully loaded with

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passengers cargo and cruise but such

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gargantuan power must also be as humanly

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reliable as possible four men will ride

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the ship to the moon under the technical

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direction of the Marshall Space Flight

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Center the task was assigned to

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Rocketdyne a division of north american

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aviation incorporated

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in California's Santa Susana mountains

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where Butterfield stages once rolled

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down rugged trails Rocketdyne engineers

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had created America's largest propulsion

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field laboratory on the ashes of

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campfires built here by the outlaw

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Joaquin Murrieta other rocket engines

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had already begun their trials by fire

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anchored to test stands engines poured

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forth their pillars of flame work on the

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giant engine christened the f1 began

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with studies of other Rocketdyne

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accomplishments in rocket power from

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investigations made for the Air Force as

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far back as 1955 to space shots of the

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60s experts examined and evaluated

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results information from 20,000 engine

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and component tests was thoroughly

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reviewed analyzed checked to the f1 the

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Marshall Space Flight Center had

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assigned the mammoth task of lifting the

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mightiest rocket ship ever from launch

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pad into space for this reason NASA had

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placed the highest priority on the

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project to achieve the tremendous push

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or thrust needed for this immense engine

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data and design were precisely plotted

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steadily systematically designed

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developed into a prototype harnessed

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here within the metal and might of this

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engine lay the outer space prestige of

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the United States this new f1 must

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perform perfectly for more than just

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time and money are involved men's lives

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will depend on

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since there is no air in outer space for

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a rocket engine to breathe it must carry

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along its own liquid oxygen at 300

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degrees below zero at the same instant

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this frigid oxygen is flowing however an

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inferno of five thousand degrees

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Fahrenheit is created inside the engine

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a new generation of production

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techniques and tools had to be devised

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new methods of manufacture new

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adjustments new ideas advanced

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metallurgy had to produce superior

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metals of great strength the latest

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instruments and inventions were prepared

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and put to their purposes essential

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details were pictured in black and white

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a myriad of matters were pinned down the

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best talent and technologies were

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assembled

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tests were run for withstanding the

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tremendous acceleration of launch

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intense vibration prodigious pressures

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the vacuum of outer space extremes of

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cold and heat yet all of these were

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merely samplings of the countless

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complexities to be solved there was more

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much more to fathom to feed the f1 with

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liquid oxygen and kerosene pumps were

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needed capable of forcing three tonnes

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of propellant into the engine in a

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single second that's as much fuel as

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your automobile uses in an entire year

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the combined power of these pumps would

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equal 30 diesel locomotives working

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together there was more for the

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engineers to ponder because wait in a

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rocket is at a premium each pump must be

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confined to a small compact package

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entering the combustion chamber fuel

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would have to burn with volcanic force

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to produce a thrust of 1 million five

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hundred thousand pounds the equivalent

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once Unleashed however this Titanic

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force must still be under absolute

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control thrust precisely delivered

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duration regulated to the fraction of a

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second the engine must be instantly

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stopped when necessary by the push of a

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single button to these formidable

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demands the Marshall Space Flight Center

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had added the requisites of reliable

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simplest in drugs to provide the utmost

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safety for the men who will ride a tough

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the f1 engines and the f1 must be

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adaptable to fit such giant spaceships

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as the advanced Saturn moon rocket now

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being planned by NASA this Saturn the c5

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will carry the Apollo spacecraft and its

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crew on the first expedition to the moon

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riding with the astronauts will be food

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communications equipment scientific

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instruments and a means for return home

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heavy shielding will protect them from

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deadly radiation

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in addition thousands of gallons of fuel

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will be contained within these tanks

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such a tremendous amount of weight will

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call for the advanced Saturn to be 350

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feet high tall as a 30-story building it

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will weigh 3,000 tons six million pounds

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of takeoff weight the heaviest load ever

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to lift off the earth by its own

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bootstraps how will such a stupendous

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task be performed by clustering 5f1

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engines together for the Saturn's first

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stage creating seven and a half million

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pounds of thrust

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power equal to 85 Hoover dams the

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intricacies of such a dynamic endeavor

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demand machines able to affect economies

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in money minutes and material and shape

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high-strength metal to exacting

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requirements and also men skilled men to

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manipulate the machines and men with

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trained minds to probe deeply into

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problems never known before hundreds of

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scientists and engineers and more

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hundreds in manufacturing and

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administration all directing their

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efforts and energies toward bringing

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into reality the f1

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from the mastery of a thousand things

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never thought of before from a multitude

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of materials newly discovered vented or

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edited from thought to tangible reality

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the f1 is no longer a drawing for dream

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it exists now the f1 is a mighty metal

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fact the result of four earnest years of

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work by the nation's most experienced

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rocket engine experts in May 1962 the f1

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was successfully run at full thrust for

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full duration captive runs continued at

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the NASA high thrust test area at

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Edwards California they will continue

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night and day perfecting the f1 for

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flight into a new dimension with the f1

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engine we will be ready to send our men

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to the moon and beyond there is no end

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to space and the moon is not our final

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target long before that landing has

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taken place routes will have been

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plotted for expeditions far beyond it as

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long as man seeks after knowledge and

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wisdom

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there will be no ultimate goal there

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will only be a series of steps each

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reaching out a little farther into the