When Vince Frazier began producing F1 Rocket parts a couple of years ago to restart Rocket kit production, he knew he wanted a new wing. The early RV-design wings were not ideal for the F1's ...

Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers as single, sculpted pieces of metal. Instead of treating 3D printing as a ...

Click to open image viewer. This is a 1/4 cutaway of an F-1 liquid fuel rocket engine. The F-1 engine produced 1.5 million pounds of thrust and was the powerplant for the first stage of the giant ...