Saturn V

The Saturn V (popularly known as the Moon Rocket) was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs. It was the largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, although NASA contemplated larger models. The rocket was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center, with the lead contractors being The Boeing Company, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM.

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Multistage - Expendable - Rocket - NASA - Apollo - Skylab - Saturn family - Wernher von Braun - Marshall Space Flight Center - The Boeing Company - North American Aviation - Douglas Aircraft Company - IBM

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On all but one of its flights, the Saturn V consisted of three stages — the S-IC first stage, S-II second stage and the S-IVB third stage. All three stages used liquid oxygen (LOX) as an

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Liquid oxygen - Oxidizer - Redox - RP-1 - Liquid hydrogen

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NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets from 1967 to 1973, with no loss of payload. (Although Apollo 6 and Apollo 13 did lose engines, the onboard computers were able to compensate.) The main payloads of the rocket were the Apollo spacecraft which carried the NASA astronauts to the Moon. It also launched the Skylab space station, and was supposed to be the prime launch vehicle for the cancelled Voyager Mars probes, a project later carried out by the Viking program in 1976.

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1967 - 1973 - Apollo 6 - Apollo 13 - Apollo spacecraft - Astronaut - Moon - Skylab - Voyager - Viking program - 1976

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