Interesting Fuel Mileage

[bigtiller]

50 years ago the Apollo 11 burned 203,400 gallons of kerosene and 318,000 gallons of liquid oxygen to push the 6 million pound rocket the first 38 miles to the moon.



from june/july 2019 popular mechanics.

 

[ArlyA]

Ya, chemical rocket engines do burn lots. The original engineers thought they'd build a single stage spacecraft to go up and return from the moon..

 

[ruffdog]

It takes lots of fuel to lift all that fuel.

 

[SmallChange]

Q: What has 55,000 shaft horsepower on a Saturn V rocket?

A: Fuel pump. And it has five of them.

 

[Thomas]

Trip back to moon has been plan for 2024.

 

[zzvyb6]

Center LOX pump was 65,000 hp to prevent backfiring (which was melting the 5" thick steel engine mounting plate.

F-1 engines burned stoichiometric mixture. Would never be allowed by the Green Emissions Polizei in today's world. Babal Warming, ya know...