H-1 Rocket Engine

H-1 Rocket Engine. . A descendant of the early V-2 engines, the H-1 was a liquid-propellant rocket engine developed for use in the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B rockets of the Apollo program. Launched with a cluster of eight H-1 engines, the Saturn 1 was used for testing and the Saturn 1B was used for testing and manned launches including Apollo 7, the three Skylab missions, and the Apollo-Soyuz mission. The eight H-1s used on these missions provided over 1.6 million lbf (7.3 million N) of thrust to place their payloads in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)., Fuel and Oxidizer - RP-1 Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen (LOX) , Thrust - 205,000 lbf (910 kN) , Manufacturer - Rockeydyne Division of North American Aviation, Fun Fact: On November 21, 1963, the day before he was assassinated, President John F. Kennedy specifically cited the Saturn 1 SA-5 launch with its eight H-1 engines as the event that would finally place the U.S. heavy lift capability ahead of the Soviet Union, who had been ahead for six years ever since the launch of Sputnik., Captions , Gift of Randy Liebermann via the International Space Hall of Fame Foundation, Alamogordo, NM-NMMSH #90.006,001