![]() Designed from 1960 to 1962 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (previously the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA)) in Huntsville, Alabama under the direction of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, the first Saturn V flew in November 1967 – with a lead time of only five years after getting the green light for the Apollo mission. For such a revolutionary machine, its birth was both short and frighteningly complicated. Born of chaosīut what is truly remarkable about the Saturn V is the story behind it. Considering that NASA engineers and astronauts were always amazed every time one lifted off instead of blowing up on the pad, that's an incredible record. Out of 32 Saturn launches, not a single one ended in failure and not a single payload was lost. In addition, it is regarded by NASA as the first true space vehicle and is still the only one to send astronauts into deep space.Īnd there's more. The construction of the 13 Saturn Vs that flew, and their 19 smaller Saturn I and Saturn IB siblings, involved 20,000 private firms and over 300,000 people spread across the continental United States. ![]() Its F-1 first stage engine is the most powerful to go into service. If that isn't enough, it's also not only the largest liquid-fueled rocket, but the largest flying machine ever built. With a first stage thrust of 7,891,000 lb (35,101 kN), it could hurl a payload of 310,000 lb (140,000 kg) into low Earth orbit and 107,100 lb (48,600 kg) on a trajectory to the Moon. It's also the heaviest rocket, weighing in at 6,540,000 lb (2,970,000 kg) and the most powerful ever to go into operation. Not only was it the key technology for possibly the biggest event since a fish decided to try leaving the ocean, but it racks up an amazing collection of records that hold to this day.Īt a height of 363 ft (110.6 m), the Saturn V is the tallest rocket, standing higher than the Statue of Liberty or the clock tower housing Big Ben. ![]() If you've ever visited one of the surviving Saturn Vs on display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida or the Johnson Space Center in Texas, you can understand that the moon rocket is a magnet for superlatives. Its birth is a story of brilliant technical innovation tinged with engineering conservatism, politics, in-fighting, and having to work on a project that no one had more than a hazy conception of until surprisingly late in the day. The skyscraper-sized rocket that made this possible is one of the most recognizable machines of the 20th century, but the building of the Saturn V wasn't that simple. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.On Jat 9:31 am EDT, the Florida landscape around the Kennedy Space Center shook as Apollo 11 lifted off on its historic mission to take the first astronauts the Moon. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. ![]() If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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