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launch vehicle
Close ✕Saturn V
The three-stage super heavy-lift rocket developed for Apollo under Wernher von Braun at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. It stood 110.6 m tall and weighed roughly 2,900 tonnes fuelled.
No recorded place · 1967–1973
Connections
- is succeeds role of of Space Launch System (SLS) — SLS occupies the Saturn V's role as America's crew-rated super heavy-lift launcher and exceeds its liftoff thrust, but its hardware lineage runs through the Space Shuttle — RS-25 engines and segmented solid boosters — not through Saturn.
- is first crewed flight of of Apollo 8 — Apollo 8 was the first time the Saturn V carried a crew, a decision taken with only two uncrewed flights of the vehicle behind it.
- is launched on of Apollo 11 — Only the Saturn V could send the combined command, service and lunar modules to the Moon in a single launch, which is why Apollo used lunar-orbit rendezvous rather than direct ascent.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
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