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Bookmark or Share- We Built the Saturn V | Air & Space Magazine| Smithsonian MagazineThe Saturn V weighed six million pounds and stood 363 feet tall, taller than the Statue of Liberty. The five F-1 engines on its first stage alone produced 7.5 million pounds of thrust.
- Looking Closer at the Saturn V | National Air and Space MuseumAlmost 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.
- 50 years ago: The First Flight of the Saturn V - NASAIn 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.
- What Was the Saturn V? – NASA Solar System ExplorationThe Saturn V was a rocket NASA built to send people to the moon. (The V in the name is the Roman numeral five.) The Saturn V was a type of rocket called a Heavy Lift Vehicle. That means it was very powerful. It was the most powerful rocket that had ever flown successfully.
- What Was the Saturn V? (Grades 5-8) - NASAThe Saturn V was a type of rocket called a Heavy Lift Vehicle. That means it was very powerful. It was the most powerful rocket that had ever flown successfully. The Saturn V was used in the Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s. It also was used to launch the Skylab space station.
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