# S-IC engines and Von Braun

- By: NASA
- Date: Unknown date. Probably 1969\[1\].
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: NIX #: MSFC-0201422. \[1\], Alt. URL.
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S-IC_engines_and_Von_Braun.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/S-IC_engines_and_Von_Braun.jpg/1920px-S-IC_engines_and_Von_Braun.jpg
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Dr. von Braun standing by five F-1 Engines.

A pioneer of America's space program, Dr. von Braun stands by the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Designed and developed by Rocketdyne under the direction of the Marshall Space Flight Center, a cluster of five F-1 engines was mounted on the Saturn V S-IC (first) stage. The engines measured 19-feet tall by 12.5-feet at the nozzle exit and burned 15 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene each second to produce 7,500,000 pounds of thrust. The S-IC stage is the first stage, or booster, of a 364-foot long rocket that ultimately took astronauts to the Moon.