The massive F1 rocket engine by Rocketdyne. How powerful is this beast? Just the fuel pump for this thing by itself has 55, 000 horsepower. 55,000 horsepower just to sling the gas to this monster. It has to. The F-1 burns 40,000 gallons of fuel a minute. To give you an idea of how much liquid that is--it would empty the average size backyard pool in 15 seconds. Just how much power is produced by 40,000 gallons of kerosene and liquid oxygen a minute when they meet inside the F-1? 160,000,000 horses worth. This one engine is as powerful as all three engines on the back of the Space Shuttle. The Saturn V used 5 of these just in the first stage alone. If you haven't guessed the Saturn V, still to this day, is the most powerful device ever created by man--with the exception of compound interest.
A mock up of a Lunar Lander. It's HUGE! Much bigger in real life than I expected. No wonder the Saturn V rocket had to be such an incredibly powerful machine. It had get this thing, the Command Module, 3 men, all their food, water, and fuel for almost two weeks up to 25,000 mph in order to break the pull of the Earth's gravity and reach the Moon.
