It was the Saturn V rocket that enabled the US to send astronauts to the Moon.
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Eisenhower also commissioned the Saturn V rockets, principally to launch multi-tonne satellites for spying.
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The Saturn V engines could be priceless historically, but hard to put a cash value on.
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He was a Fulbright and his father Chauncey helped design the Saturn V rocket with Werner Von Braun.
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We no longer have the Saturn V rockets that carried the Apollo capsules.
If we had not thrown away the Saturn v rocket there could have been permanent lunar bases on the moon.
In 1967, The first Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
It was 1969, and a Saturn V rocket assembled by Boeing--Seattle's biggest employer--had just delivered the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon.
But when President Kennedy inherited the White House and had to respond to Gagarin's flight, the Saturn V was already in development.
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The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago.
The SLS will provide the U.S. with a capability for science and human exploration that we have not had since the Saturn V of the Apollo era.
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At 180 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, the Falcon 9 rocket is tiny in comparison to the football-field-long Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo spacecraft into orbit.
The factory is built on the site of the the Redstone Arsenal, which produced the earliest U.S. rockets, including the Saturn V, which took Apollo astronauts to the Moon.
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Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled plans to recover the F-1 engines that powered the Saturn V rocket carrying Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
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SpaceX was quick to make the point that the ability to carry on despite an engine failure demonstrates a big advantage of multi-engined rockets like the Falcon (Space Shuttles and Saturn V moon rockets could both do something similar).
But against all the odds, on the 16 July 1969, just 30 months after the fatal fire - the first Saturn V rocket attempting to carry men from the surface of one world to another rose into the Florida sky.
The weight of the lunar module, on top of the command and service module, was the main reason why the Saturn V rockets that shot Apollo astronauts into space needed to be the tallest, heaviest and most powerful ever flown, a record they still hold.
In order to successfully recreate the launch of the ill-fated moon mission, Legato pulled pulled together a group of people and showed them collection of footage from actual Saturn V rocket launches, hoping to identify the most powerful visual elements, which he would strive to replicate in the film.
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You know, kind of like when Sidney Bristo (Alias) is racing down an exhaust vent to 'disarm' a satellite gizmo on a random rocket just before the launch and therefore the utter distruction of the world but the rocket they show is the Saturn V used in the Apollo program.
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From the seemingly insurmountable problems of getting each stage of the Saturn V to work, to the challenges of making the Command Module safe following the fire that killed the first Apollo astronauts, even the engineers would have told you at times that they didn't think it could be done.
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