At 98 metres, the new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 4 million kilograms of ...

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 ...