What You Need to Know: On January 14, 1969, the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise suffered one of the worst peacetime disasters in U.S. Navy history while preparing for its fourth deployment to Vietnam.

The XLR99 rocket was a real gas guzzler, using up to 15,000 pounds (6,804 kg) of propellant for 80 seconds. These were the first rocket engines that could be throttled equipped for manned missions.

Other components from Apollo 11’s F-1 rocket engines will go on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., under an arrangement worked out by ...

In April 1965, engineers install five 1.5-million-pound-thrust F-1 rocket engines on a Saturn V stage for a static test. In the spring of 2003, construction was nearing completion at the Steven F ...

F-1 schematics (Image: NASA) View gallery - 17 images Amazon.com founder and the man behind Blue Origin , Jeff Bezos, has recovered parts of the F-1 rocket engines used in the Apollo missions.

Dawn Aerospace Begins Taking Orders for Aurora Spaceplane: A Breakthrough Rocket-Powered Aircraft. Share. First spaceplane for sale, capable of reaching 100 km, now available for delivery in 2027.