It was the Saturn V rocket that enabled the US to send astronauts to the Moon.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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.
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