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Object Name: Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, H-1
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A19700257000

	Object Name
	Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, H-1

	Metadata Usage
	Not determined

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv957e50b5f-22bd-4bf0-8afd-90488e96669f

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Manufacturer
	Rocketdyne Division, Rockwell International

	Materials
	Chamber and nozzle coolant passages 347 stainless steel. Propellant tanks, lines, and valves, stainless steel. Pumps, aluminum alloys; turbine, Hastealloy. Injector, OHFC copper and 347 stainless steel.

	Materials
	Combustion chamber made of 292 stainless steel tubes. The assembly, except for inlet manifold, was furnaced brazed with gold brazing alloy. Injectors, furanced brazed.

	Dimensions
	Overall: 8 ft. 4 in. long x 3 ft. 11 in. diameter (254 x 119.38cm)

	Summary
	The H-1 liquid-fuel rocket engine was the first stage powerplant of the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B launch vehicles, precursors to the Saturn V that took men to the Moon in the Apollo program. The Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B were each fitted with eight H-1 engines in their first stages. The engine used RP-1 (kerosene) and liquid oxygen and produced up to 205,000 pounds of thrust. The Saturn 1 first flew in 1961 while the last Saturn 1B was flown in 1975 for the low-Earth orbit Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The H-1 was developed and built by Rocketdyne, a division of the North Amercian Rockwell Corp. This engine was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1970 from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

	Country of Origin
	United States of America

	Credit Line
	Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

	Inventory Number
	A19700257000

	Date
	ca. 1958-1975

	Type
	PROPULSION-Rocket Engines

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