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The Saturn V is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. The rocket was human-rated, had three stages, and was powered by liquid fuel.
17 Sep 2010 · The Saturn V was developed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. It was one of three types of Saturn rockets NASA built. Two smaller rockets, the Saturn I (1) and IB (1b), were used to launch humans into Earth orbit. The Saturn V sent them beyond Earth orbit to the moon.
29 Apr 2022 · The Saturn V, pronounced Saturn five, was a heavy lift vehicle that was at the time the most powerful rocket ever to successfully take flight. Not only would this stunning piece of human...
17 Sep 2010 · The Saturn V rocket was 111 meters (363 feet) tall, about the height of a 36-story-tall building, and 18 meters (60 feet) taller than the Statue of Liberty. Fully fueled for liftoff, the Saturn V weighed 2.8 million kilograms (6.2 million pounds), the weight of about 400 elephants.
8 Nov 2017 · In November 1967, with the Space Age barely 10 years old, NASA was about to take one giant leap forward: the first flight of the Saturn 5 Moon rocket. For the mission known as Apollo 4, the 363-foot tall Saturn 5 had rolled out to Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on August 26, 1967.
20 Jul 2018 · Almost five decades later, the Saturn V remains the United States’ largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built. (Yes, even more than Space-X’s Falcon Heavy!) The Saturn V launch vehicle had three stages: The components of the Saturn V rocket. Credit: National Air and Space Museum.
Saturn V: Inside the rocket that launched Apollo 11 to the Moon - BBC Science Focus Magazine.
9 Nov 2022 · On Nov. 9, 1967, with the Space Age barely 10 years old, NASA took one giant leap forward: the first flight of the Saturn V Moon rocket. For the mission known as Apollo 4, the 363-foot tall Saturn V had rolled out to Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Aug. 26, 1967.
In 1961 when President Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, no rocket existed with the power or capability to rise to the chall...
2 Apr 2018 · The Saturn V rocket stood about the height of a 36-story-tall building, and 60 feet (18 meters) taller than the Statue of Liberty. Fully fueled for liftoff, the Saturn V weighed 6.2 million pounds (2.8 million kilograms), or the weight of about 400 elephants.
