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    The sign accompanying the F-1 engine.  It reads
     
    
    
     
 
    
    
    
     The F-1 Engine
    Marshall's Legacy of Flight
    
    
    
    The largest liquid-powered rocket engine ever used to launch Americans into
    space, the F-1 was the key to successfully "slipping the surly bonds" of
    Earth's gravity and sending Apollo astronauts on their first historic missions
    to the moon.  With 1.5 million pounds of thrust and arranged in clusters of
    five to power the Saturn V's first
    stage, the F-1 was a staggering ten times more powerful than other, conventional engines of
    the 1950s and 1960s.
     
    
    
     F-1 Quick Facts
    
    
    
     
    
      | Propellants: | 
      Liquid Oxygen/RP-1 (2.27 mix) | 
     
    
      | Thrust (at sea Level): | 
      1,500,000 lbs | 
     
    
      | Height: | 
      18.5 feet | 
     
      Diameter: | 
      12.2 feet | 
    
    
      | Dry Weight: | 
      18,416 lbs | 
     
    
      | First Flight: | 
      1967 | 
     
    
      | Last Flight: | 
      1973 | 
     
    
      | No. of Flights: | 
      65 | 
     
     
    
    
    
       
    
    
    
    The "No. of Flights: 65" presumably means "Total No. of Engines Flown" as there
    were 13 Saturn V launches, each with five engines, for 65 total engines flown.
     
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