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Saturn V rocket
This is the Saturn V rocket at Rocket Park, in Johnson Space Center.
The Saturn V (pronounced "Saturn Five") was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973. In total, NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets with no loss of payload. It remains the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status from a height, weight and payload standpoint.
The Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. Von Braun's design was based in part on his work on the "Aggregate" series of rockets, especially the A-10, A-11, and A12 in Germany during World War II.
Versions of the Saturn V exist in three locations, but only the one at the Johnson Space Center's Rocket Park consists entirely of stages that were intended to be launched. It is made up of made up of first stage of SA-514, the second stage from SA-515 and the third stage from SA-513. With stages arriving between 1977 and 1979, this was displayed in the open until its 2005 restoration when a structure was built around it for protection.
[Adapted from Wikipedia.]
Saturn V rocket
This is the Saturn V rocket at Rocket Park, in Johnson Space Center.
The Saturn V (pronounced "Saturn Five") was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973. In total, NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets with no loss of payload. It remains the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status from a height, weight and payload standpoint.
The Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. Von Braun's design was based in part on his work on the "Aggregate" series of rockets, especially the A-10, A-11, and A12 in Germany during World War II.
Versions of the Saturn V exist in three locations, but only the one at the Johnson Space Center's Rocket Park consists entirely of stages that were intended to be launched. It is made up of made up of first stage of SA-514, the second stage from SA-515 and the third stage from SA-513. With stages arriving between 1977 and 1979, this was displayed in the open until its 2005 restoration when a structure was built around it for protection.
[Adapted from Wikipedia.]