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.
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In 1967, The first Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
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.
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.
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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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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