An illustration from 1967 compares the sizes of the Saturn V rocket and the Statue of Liberty. At 363 feet tall (111 m), the Saturn V was almost 60 feet (18 m) taller than the Statue of Liberty.

The final result was the Saturn V, the rocket that would power all six successful moon landings and the launching of the ...

Instead of scrapping the Saturn V rocket after Apollo 18 was canceled, NASA preserved it at their Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shown below. Check out the Saturn V rocket in the lower right.

The 1967 Apollo 4 mission was an uncrewed flight to test the Saturn V rocket as a viable launch vehicle for future manned missions. The test was a smashing success and a critical step in the US ...

November 9, 1967, T-minus 8.9 seconds: Thousands of gallons of kerosene and liquid oxygen begin coursing through the giant center F1 rocket engine: The Saturn V’s ignition sequence has begun ...

T he Saturn V rocket was part of the technology that made the Apollo mission successful and played a pivotal role in launching Apollo 11 to the Moon in 1969, marking a turning point in human history.

That rocket would be known as the Saturn V, a three-stage rocket that, until the space shuttle era, was the most powerful launch vehicle to successfully take flight.

The 10-week "Revive the Saturn V" campaign seeks to raise $1.3 million to clean, reseal and paint the 363-foot-tall (110 meter) rocket replica that has stood at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center ...

The Saturn V rocket was part of the technology that made the Apollo mission successful and played a pivotal role in launching Apollo 11 to the Moon in 1969, marking a turning point in human history.

HOUSTON - Dwarfed by the Saturn V rocket’s immense size, 10-year-old Adam Brauscum stood in awe as his father described how such massive machinery carried man to the moon.

The Saturn V was used for the entire Apollo program, culminating in the last mission to the Moon, Apollo 17 in 1972. The big rocket was also used to launch Nasa’s first space station, Skylab, in ...

The Saturn IB, the "other" manned Apollo rocket, is largely forgotten today while its giant cousin, the Saturn V moon rocket, is well remembered. That's because the Saturn IB flew only five times ...