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6 hari yang lalu · The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; the lead contractors for construction of the rocket were Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM.
18 Jun 2024 · Skylab made extensive use of Saturn and Apollo equipment. Through the use of a “dry” third stage of the Saturn V rocket, the station was completely outfitted as a workshop area before launch. Crews visited Skylab and returned to Earth in Apollo spacecraft.
1 hari yang lalu · A Saturn V rocket launches Apollo 11, 1969. Saturn V launch vehicles and flights were designated with an AS-500 series number, "AS" indicating "Apollo Saturn" and the "5" indicating Saturn V. The three-stage Saturn V was designed to send a fully fueled CSM and LM to the Moon. It was 33 feet (10.1 m) in diameter and stood 363 feet (110.6 m) tall ...
20 Jun 2024 · Rocket and Spacecraft. The flight mode, lunar orbit rendezvous, was selected in 1962. The boosters for the program were the Saturn IB for Earth orbit flights and the Saturn V for lunar flights.
18 Jun 2024 · A first stage of the huge Saturn V rocket is lifted by crane for installation on the B-2 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center (then the Mississippi Test Facility) in March 1967. Both first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket were tested at the NASA facility in the 1960s.
1 Jul 2024 · This 61-page soft-cover booklet describes the Apollo program’s Saturn V moon rocket focusing on the hardware details most important to the scale model builder. Most of the text was written by noted Saturn V historian, John Duncan, with line drawings provided by award-winning modeler David Weeks.
2 hari yang lalu · The unmanned Saturn/Apollo 4 (AS-501) mission was the first all-up test of the three stage Saturn V rocket. It carried a payload of an Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) into Earth orbit.
