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