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required for the five massive F1 engines of the Saturn V. For comparison, the Saturn 1B rocket used
a cluster of 8 H1 engines, each of which provided 200,000 pounds of thrust. The Saturn V design
called for a cluster of 5 F1 engines each of which provided 1,500,000 pounds of thrust. The vast
volume of fuel which had to be combusted to provide this much thrust rendered the F1 unstable. The
heat and vibration led to catastrophic failures.

Wernher Von Braun might have throttled down the rocket, improving its stability. It would be
improbable that the public watching the launch could tell the difference between a rocket engine
producing 500,000, or 750,000 pounds of thrust from one producing 1,500,000 pounds of thrust.
With the weight removed from the top of the rocket, and the payload greatly reduced, this far less
capable rocket could still make a good showing as it disappeared into the sky and out of the public’s
sight.

Of the three modules, only the Command Module returned to Earth. The public would never see the
Lunar Module or Service Module again. The base of the Lunar Module would be left on the Moon.
The top portion of the Lunar Module would be discarded in lunar orbit, and the Service Module
would be jettisoned to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere just prior to the Command Module making
re-entry. Consequently, there would be no way to examine these components to verify whether they
had ever gone into space or to the Moon. The citizens of America and the world only saw these
modules through the easily exploited medium of television.

NASA did not even need to send the astronauts into space. It is quite doubtful that if they had gone
to the Moon that they could survive re-entry to the Earth’s atmosphere due to the intense heat
generated. When satellites fall back to Earth, they inevitably burn up before they reach the ground.
The Space Shuttle Columbia incinerated during re-entry when a single heat shield tile broke off. The
intense heat of re-entry penetrated this vulnerable area, causing the hull to breach and the shuttle to
disintegrate. The Apollo Command Modules would have experienced far greater temperatures than
the Space Shuttles because of their greatly increased speed of reentry. The Apollo Command
Modules would have hit the Earth’s upper atmosphere at a speed of 24,000 mph. The Space Shuttle’s
reentry speed was about 17,500 mph.

It is reported that the temperature of the Command Module on reentry reached 5,000 degrees
Fahrenheit.

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