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Old October 3rd 03, 07:00 PM
David Higgins
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Henry Spencer wrote:
Fuel tank 216,000 gallons, LOX tank 345,000 gallons, according to the
Saturn V Flight Manual, Apollo 8 edition.


( I'll accept Henry as authoritative, even without the S-V
Flight Manual cite. :-) Thanks!)

Looks like around 3500 gallons of fuel + oxidizer consumed
per second by all five engines combined.