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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. Fifteen flight-capable vehicles ...
The Saturn family of American rockets was developed by a team of former German rocket engineers and scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. The Saturn family used liquid hydrogen as fuel in the upper stages .
The S-IVB (pronounced "S-four-B") was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, it had one J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for translunar injection (TLI).
In 1999, a full-scale model of the Saturn V rocket was erected, standing nearly twice as tall as the Saturn I. [46] From 1979 to 2023 an unflown Saturn IB rocket owned by MSFC and leased to the museum stood at the Alabama Welcome Center in Ardmore "as a reminder to visitors of Alabama's role in the space program." It was removed and salvaged ...
The Saturn V dynamic test vehicle, designated SA-500D, is a prototype Saturn V rocket used by NASA to test the performance of the rocket when vibrated to simulate the shaking which subsequent rockets would experience during launch. It was the first full-scale Saturn V completed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
There are three remaining authentic Saturn V rockets on display, and all of them are displayed horizontally. "Whatever capsules are flying today, whether it's Russian or SpaceX, you can fit three ...
Apollo 4 (November 9, 1967), also known as SA-501, was the uncrewed first test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the rocket that eventually took astronauts to the Moon.
Elon Musk has finally broken his silence after his company’s rocket, the most powerful ever made, exploded shortly after launch. ... soaring into the air with twice the power of the Saturn V ...