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The following chart shows the number of launch systems developed in each country, and broken down by operational status. Rocket variants are not distinguished; i.e., the Atlas V series is only counted once for all its configurations 401–431, 501–551, 552, and N22.
Saturn V: Retired 1st RP-1 / ... 5.97: Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster [k]
Arthur Rudolph became the project director of the Saturn V rocket program in August 1963. He developed the requirements for the rocket system and the mission plan for the Apollo program. The first Saturn V launch lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and performed flawlessly on November 9, 1967, Rudolph's birthday. [40]
A Saturn V rocket, one of the most powerful operational launch vehicles to date. This article compares different orbital launcher families (launchers which are significantly different from other members of the same 'family' have separate entries).
Saturn IB Saturn V: 3: 8.5: 3.91: 5,500 CM + 14,700 LM + 24,500 Service Module: Fuel cells Parachute splashdown (two drogues, three pilots, three mains) 1967 (1966) 1975: 15 (4) [note 3] Space Shuttle orbiter USA: Rockwell International: LEO: Space Shuttle: 8 [note 4] 37.24: 4.8 [note 5] 109,000: Fuel cells Runway landing (with one pilot and ...
Wernher von Braun with the F-1 engines of the Saturn V first stage at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Rocketdyne developed the F-1 and the E-1 to meet a 1955 U.S. Air Force requirement for a very large rocket engine. The E-1, although successfully tested in static firing, was quickly seen as a technological dead-end, and was abandoned for the ...
The Saturn-Shuttle was a preliminary concept of launching the Space Shuttle orbiter using a modified version of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket. [1] It was studied and considered in 1971–1972.
Saturn V – 13 launches; the Moon rocket that sent Apollo astronauts to the Moon, and carried the Skylab space station into orbit. Built members of the Saturn family A Saturn I ( SA-1 ) liftoff from LC-34