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Description: Test Firing of an F-1 Engine at Edwards Air Force Base. The F-1 engine was developed and built by Rocketdyne under the direction of the Marshall Space Flight Center. It measured 19 feet tall by 12.5 feet at the nozzle exit, and produced a 1,500,000-pound thrust using liquid oxygen and kerosene as the propellant. The image shows an F-1 engine being test fired at the Test Stand 1-C at the Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Title: F-1 Engine Test Firing
Credit: http://nix.nasa.gov/info?id=MSFC-6862846
Author: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
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License: Public domain
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