Interesting Fuel Mileage

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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.
 
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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..
 
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It takes lots of fuel to lift all that fuel.
 
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Q: What has 55,000 shaft horsepower on a Saturn V rocket?

A: Fuel pump. And it has five of them.
 
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Trip back to moon has been plan for 2024.
 
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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...
 

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