Saturn 5 Moon Rockets Main Engine, the F 1, NASA Apollo Program Space Travel HD

Visit my website at the Saturn V moon rocket s 1st stage had five of these huge F1 engines. The complex tubing you see extending from the upper nozzle to the lower nozzle skirt, carried exhaust gases from the turbopump to the lower skirt creating a boundary layer effect. This relatively cool gas layer protected the skirt from the main engine hot exhaust gases. The main engine and upper nozzle were liquid cooled using the RP1 (kerosene) fuel as coolant. It ran through all the complex tubing visible in the engine and nozzle. The F1 is still the most powerful engine ever built. This one is located in Alamogordo, New Mexico; at the Science and Space Museum. Please rate and comment, thanks br, br,