On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 5:28:46 AM UTC-5, GordonD wrote:
"David Spain" wrote in message

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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.





According to 'Stages to Saturn' (the official NASA history of the

development of the Saturn launch vehicles) the first test-firing of an F-1

was March 1959 - it "demonstrated stable combustion for 200 milliseconds."

The Apollo Spacecraft Chronology sets it at 6 March.

--

Gordon Davie

Edinburgh, Scotland



"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

200 milliseconds? And what happened then, unstable combustion?