The Saturn V

Apollo Program 1968 - 1972

Skylab and the Apollo Soyuz Project 1973 - 1975

 

 

Apollo 11 patch - First landing on the moon

Apollo 11

F1 Engine

F1 Engine

Air and Space Museum Steven F Udvar-Hazy Gallery

NASA Saturn and Apollo Image Gallery

The Saturn V is the most powerful rocket in history. It is 363 feet tall and made the noise of 8 million stereos at full volume during liftoff.

Facts:

Weight - 6,2000,000 pounds

Thrust - First stage 33,360,000 newtons (7,500,000 pounds)

             Second stage 4,448,000 newtons (1,000,000 pounds)

             Third stage 889,660 newtons (200,000 pounds)

Diameter - 33 feet

Stages - 3 (2 for Skylab)

Flights:

Apollo 4 - 11/09/1967 -First Saturn V Flight

Apollo 6 - 04/04/1968 -Second Saturn V Flight

Apollo 8 - 12/21/1968 - First manned flight

Apollo 11 - 07/16/1969 - First landing on the moon

Apollo 13 - 4/11/1970 - Failed to make a lunar landing due to an oxygen tank rupture

Apollo 17 - 12/07/1972 - Last of the manned Moon missions.

Skylab 1 - 05/14/1973 - Place Skylab workshop in orbit

ASTP - 07/15/1975 - Conducted manned rendezvous and docking with USSR Soyuz

 

Flight History

Click on above rocket stages for more information

Stage 1 (S-IC) - 33 feet in diameter and 138 feet long. Powered by five F-1 engines. Typical flight 2.5 minutes to 38 miles.

Stage 2 (S-II) - 33 feet in diameter and 81 feet and 7 inches long. Powered by five J-2 Engines. Typical flight 6 minutes to 114 miles.

Stage 3  (S-IVB) - 21 feet and 8 inches in diameter and 58 feet and 7 inches long. Powered by one J-2 engine. Typical burn is 2.75 minutes for the first burn and 5.2 minutes to a translunar injection.

Instrument Unit - 21 feet and 8 inches in diameter and 3 feet long

Apollo Spacecraft - 80 feet long. Contains the command module, service module and the lunar module.

Saturn V Reference

Saturn V Assembly

Glossary

The five stage one engines (F-1) generated 7.5 millions pounds of thrust at liftoff

Lunar landing module. Also known as the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module)

Lunar module configuration for landing

Lunar module ascent stage

         Stage 3 engine (J-2)          Command Module

     

        Instrument Unit

Apollo boilerplate command module

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Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Instrument Unit Apollo Spacecraft
   

Apollo-Soyuz

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In July 1975 two spacecraft were launched from Kazakstan and Florida. Their rendezvous fulfilled a 1972 agreement between the United States and Russia to participate in a joint space venture.

 

 
   

Skylab

Air and Space Museum

This is the backup of America's first space station.

  
   

Lunar Lander

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