I Asked An Actual Apollo Engineer to Explain the Saturn 5 Rocket - Smarter Every Day 280

Summary by Krater

Luke Talley, an original IBM engineer who worked on the Saturn V instrument unit, explains how the instrument unit guided the rocket to the moon.

From the video

Answers: How did the Saturn V instrument unit work?

• Saturn V instrument unit
• F-1 rocket engines
• S-IC stage
• S-II stage
• S-IVB stage
• Apollo 13 launch

What it concludes

• The instrument unit had to control the entire rocket during flight.
• The F-1 engine fuel is kerosene and the oxidizer is liquid oxygen.
• The F-1 engine thrust chamber reaches 5900 degrees.
• The S-IC stage burns 2 1/2 minutes and takes the rocket 40 miles high at 5,000 miles an hour.
• The F-1 engines use kerosene routed through tubes in the thrust chamber to cool the engine.
• J002E3 was identified as the third stage of Apollo 12 coming back into orbit around the Earth.