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Each Saturn V fuel pump produced 55 megawatts

The five F-1 engines burned kerosene and oxygen at about 13 tonnes a second The F-1 remains the most powerful single chamber rocket engine flown, producing about 6.7 meganewtons at sea level. Each engine's turbopump delivered kerosene fast enough to drain a swimming pool in seconds. The first stage burned for about 168 seconds. It sits in Mondo's space collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The five F-1 engines burned kerosene and oxygen at about 13 tonnes a second. The figure is taken from NASA History, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a space fact?: Yes. It sits on the Space shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.