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Foreword.- Author’s Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of Illustrations.- Origins and F-1 Engine Development.- From Nova to Saturn: Evolution of the Moon Rocket.- Manufacturing the F-1 Engine at Rocketdyne.- Boeing and the Saturn V S-IC Stage.- Testing the F-1 and S-IC Stage.- The Apollo Saturn V Launches.- The Engine that Might Been: the F-1A and its Legacy.- Appendix.- Index.

<p>Anthony Young's first automotive book, published in 1984, became the best-selling automotive title sold in America within three months of its publication, according to Auto Week magazine.&nbsp; His first Springer-Praxis book, Lunar and Planetary Rovers: The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars will be published in the fall of 2006. He is a regular contributor to Space Times magazine and the online weekly website, The Space Review.</p>

<p>When the mighty Rocketdyne F-1 engine was conceived in the late 1950s for the&nbsp;U.S. Air Force, it had no defined mission and there was no launch vehicle it could&nbsp;power. It was a bold concept to push the technological envelope of rocket&nbsp;propulsion in order to put massive payloads into Earth orbit. Few realized at the&nbsp;time that the F-1 would one day propel American astronauts to the Moon.&nbsp;In The Saturn V F-1 Engine, Anthony Young tells the amazing story of unbridled&nbsp;vision, bold engineering, explosive failures during testing, unrelenting persistence&nbsp;to find solutions, and ultimate success in launching the Saturn V with a 100 percent&nbsp;success rate. The book</p><p></p><ul><li>contains personal interviews with many Rocketdyne and NASA personnel involved in the engine’s design, development, testing and production;</li><li>is lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs, many never previously published</li><li>is the first complete history of the most powerful rocket engine ever built.<br></li></ul><p></p><p>The F-1 engine remains the high point in U.S. liquid rocket propulsion – it&nbsp;represents a period in American history when nothing was impossible.</p>

The first book devoted to the development of the Rocketdyne F-1 engine and its integration into the five-engine cluster that would power the first stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle Includes many never-before-published photographs, both color and black and white, during the development and testing of the F-1 engine Draws on original documents and highlights interviews with some of the engineers and managers who worked on the programme The author includes development of the hydrogen-burning J-2 engine thus bringing rocket engine development up to the present