This data set includes data and metadata about a metallurgical analysis and conservation of turbine blades from a recovered F-1 engine from the Apollo 16 Saturn V rocket. This data set includes: images of the as recovered turbine blades, cross sections of the recovered turbine blades after vacuum impregnation, x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) measurements of the recovered turbine blades.