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Old February 27th 13, 12:27 AM posted to sci.space.history
David Spain
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Default F-1 engine - first launch

On 2/25/2013 3:39 PM, David Spain wrote:
On 2/25/2013 1:50 PM, Jan Philips wrote:
The bottom of this page http://www.astronautix.com/engines/f1.htm says
"first launch 1959". Wasn't this only a static test firing? The
first launch was the Saturn V with Apollo 4, right?

Sounds right to me.


To clarify; I was in agreement with the poster Jan Philips, not the
Astronautix article.

Dave