F1 Rocket Engine Test
F 1 engines being stored in the f 1 engine preparation shop.
F1 rocket engine test. The first static test of all five first stage saturn v f1 engines. Test firing of all five f 1 engines for the saturn v s ic test stage at the marshall space flight center. The f 1 is a gas generator cycle rocket engine developed in the united states by rocketdyne in the late 1950s and used in the saturn v rocket in the 1960s and early 1970s. Five f 1 engines were used in the s ic first stage of each saturn v which served as the main launch vehicle of the apollo programthe f 1 remains the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid propellant rocket engine.
The test laboratory of the marshall space flight center msfc tested the f 1 engine the most powerful rocket engine ever fired at msfc.