Maxwell Berndt
Mrs. Bremer
English 11 pd. 5
March 25, 2013
The
Mighty Saturn V
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union put the first
artificial satellite into space called Sputnik. This event went about triggering
a competition between the US and the Soviet Union to put a man on the moon. The
race to the moon was one of the most significant leaps, technologically, in
history, bringing about the development of a new age of technology allowing the
human race to live in the most hostile environment known to man, space. The
race to the moon was won by the US, when they had successfully built, tested
and launched the biggest rocket the world has ever seen, the Saturn V, with
three very brave astronauts strapped tightly to the top. The Saturn V rocket
dominates over anything man made, as the world’s most powerful controllable
machine to have ever been built.
Before
the moon bound launch of the mighty Saturn V, there had been many other
launches to test the design of the rocket in order to ensure the safety of the
crew of three on the Apollo Eleven. Prior to Apollo Elevens moon mission,
(insert list of missions) many more missions were performed in order to test
different goals and objectives, as well as to see if there were any health
risks in extended zero gravity exposure. When the Saturn V rocket took off the
crew experienced vertical vibrations strong enough to make it next to near
impossible to see the control panel. The Saturn V rocket has the capability to
produce incredibly massive amounts of thrust every second.
One
way the Saturn V is the most powerful controllable machine ever built is shown
through its overall thrust capabilities. The first stage’s five F-1 engines,
for which the ‘V’ in Saturn V stands for, are capable of producing over seven
and a half million pounds of thrust per second. As a direct result of the
engines incredibly immense power output, the first stage glutinously consumed
two and a half tons of fuel every second. Even though the rocket, upon launch,
weighed over six million pounds it was still able to reach speeds exceeding
supersonic in less than sixty seconds. Bt the time the rocket had begun its one
and half orbits around the earth, it was effortlessly cruising through the
heavens at a speed of seventeen thousand miles per hour. When the Saturn V
reached an escape velocity of around thirty six thousand miles per hour, it
broke away from earth and through the tops of the heavens and began its journey
to the moon.
