The H-1 liquid-fuel rocket engine was the first stage power plant for the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B launch vehicles, the precursors to the Saturn V which took men to the Moon in the Apollo program. TThis ...

After translunar injection (when the third stage of Saturn V reignited to send Apollo 11 toward the Moon), the spacecraft's speed relative to Earth reached 24,200 miles per hour. But as soon as it ...

Once the Apollo 11 crew reached the Moon's gravity, the speed increased to 5,600 mph. While the Saturn V's top speed is indeed incredible, the Apollo 10 actually set the bar just months before, in ...

This is the H-1 liquid-fuel rocket engine. The H-1 was the first stage powerplant for the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B launch vehicles, the precursors to the Saturn V which took humans to the moon in the ...