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Materials:
Inlets, volutes, and impellers, aluminum alloy casting. Turbine wheels and manifold assemblies, nickel alloy.
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 ft. 2 in. tall x 4 ft. wide, 2000 lb. (w/Crate 2,500lb.) (157.48 x 121.92cm, 907.2kg)
Type:
PROPULSION-Components (Engine Parts)
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Summary:
This pump was used on the F-1 liquid fuel rocket engine, the powerplant for the first stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle that took the first astronauts to the Moon for six successful landing missions from 1969 to 1972 in the Project Apollo program. The F-1 produced 1.5 million pounds of thrust.
The first stage was fitted with five F-1s for a total lift-off thrust of 7.5 million pounds. The F-1 used RP-1, a type of kerosene and liquid oxygen as the propellants. The F-1's 2,500 pound turbopump pumped in the propellants at 42,500 gallons per minute.
This pump was donated to the Smithsonian in 1975 by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit Line:
Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
