Saturn V

The Saturn V was a multistage liquid-fuel rocket, an expendable launch system that was used for NASA's Apollo program capsules for their journeys to the Moon.

Over 110 m high and 10 m in diameter, with a total mass of 3,038,500 kg and a payload capacity of 118,000 kg to LEO the Saturn V was the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. (The Soviet Energiya heavy-lift booster was designed to orbit 120-150 tons, but was never flown at this capacity.) It was a three-stage rocket built by Boeing (S-IC first stage), North American Aviation (S-II second stage), Rocketdyne-NAA (engines) and Douglas Aircraft Company (S-IVB third stage).

It was the vehicle that carried the Apollo astronauts to the Moon. A two-stage version carried the Skylab station to earth orbit. A total of 15 rockets were launched fom the John F. Kennedy Space Center. The first launch was Apollo 4 on November 9 1967.