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A mock NASA Space Rocket in the grounds of the Cherry Tree cafe, 2 Wragby Road, Sudbrooke, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
WIKIPEDIA: The Apollo 16 mission successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54 PM EST on April 16, 1972.[32] The launch itself was nominal, with the crew experiencing vibration similar to that of previous crews. The first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket performed nominally; the spacecraft, along with the mission's three crew members aboard, successfully entered orbit around Earth just under twelve minutes after lift-off. After reaching orbit, the crew spent time adapting themselves to the zero-gravity environment and preparing the spacecraft for Trans Lunar Injection, the burn of the third stage rocket that would propel them to the Moon. In Earth orbit, the crew faced multiple minor technical issues, including a potential problem with the environmental control system and the S-IVB third stage's attitude control system, that were eventually resolved or compensated for in preparation for departure towards the Moon. After two orbits, the rocket's third stage reignited for just over five minutes, propelling the craft towards the Moon at approximately 22,000 mph (35,000 km/h).[33] Six minutes after the successful burn of the S-IVB, the Command/Service Module, containing the crew, separated from the rocket and traveled for 15 m (49 ft) before turning around and retrieving the Lunar Module from inside the expended rocket stage. The maneuver, known as transposition, went smoothly and the LM was extracted from the S-IVB.[34][35] Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second. The crew entered the Lunar Module through the docking tunnel connecting it with the Command Module to inspect its systems, at which time they did not spot any major issues. Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie "barbecue" mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun. After further preparing the craft for the trans-lunar voyage, the crew began the first sleep period of the mission just under fifteen hours after launch.[36]. NASA photo, REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
KSC INFO: This American Flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, man's first lunar landing mission. This double exposure was made with a 1000 mm lens. The photograph was taken from Cape Kennedy, adjacent to Kennedy Space Center, where Apollo 11 lifted off from pad-39a at 9h32 a.m. EDT. This image was imposed upon the image of the flag, filmed a day earlier. In the double exposure the rocket is at an altitude of about 5,000 feet. A band of super-cold propellants seems to circle the rocket near its center. The effect is caused by the difference in temperature between the propellants and the atmosphere. FOR RELEASE: July 16, 1969. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 69-HC-765, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA headquarters Washington D.C. July 5, 1976.
NASA 71-HC-1204, Washington, D.C., September 27, 1971: INFO: Station statistics
COSPAR ID1973-027A
Call signSkylab
Crew3 (9 overall)
Launch: May 14, 1973
17:30:00 UTC
Launch padLC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
ReentryJuly 11, 1979
16:37:00 UTC
near Perth, Australia
Mass169,950 lb (77,088 kg)[1]
w/o CSM
Length86.3 feet (26.3 m)
w/o CSM
Width55.8 feet (17.0 m)
w/ one solar panel
Height24.3 feet (7.4 m)
w/ telescope mount
Diameter21.67 feet (6.6 m)
Pressurised volume319.8 m3 (11,290 cu ft)
w/ docking adapter and airlock)
Perigee269.7 mi (434.0 km)
Apogee274.6 mi (441.9 km)
Orbital inclination50°
Orbital period93.4 min
Orbits per day15.4
Days in orbit2,249 days
Days occupied171 days
Number of orbits34,981
Distance travelled~890,000,000 mi (1,400,000,000 km)
Statistics as of Re-entry July 11, 1979
Acquisition: NASA Skylab News Center, Cape Canaveral city, May 12, 1973. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
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The rocket garden is located inside the front entrance, beyond Heroes & Legends.It is an outdoor display of historic rockets that put Americans and satellites in space. Visitors can walk up to and around the base of the rockets. The Mercury-Redstone, Mercury-Atlas 6, and Titan II rockets launched astronauts and the Juno I, Juno II, Thor-Delta, and Atlas-Agena rockets launched satellites from Cape Canaveral. These are mounted upright whereas the largest rocket, a Saturn IB, is mounted on its side.The Juno I on display is painted with serial number "UE" like the one that launched the first US satellite, Explorer I
When Britain had a space program 1969-71 and put the Black Arrow Rocket (and a Satellite) into space, this is where the rockets were tested. The rocket testing pits at 'The Needles', Isle of Wight. One either end of the concrete embrasure on the cliff face with a bunker in the middle.
When tested the rockets were then sent to Australia and launched from the Woomera Test Range. Two out of four launches were successful before the Black Arrow program was axed. An unused example of a Black Arrow (and it's Satellite payload) though still hangs in the Science Museum in London.
PA_1145 [50 points]
A space rocket in the 13ème arrondissement of Paris. Hard to capture in the afternoon due to very heavy backlight.
Other view:
PA_1145 (Street view, July 2015)
Date of invasion: 24/06/2015 (Source: Instagram, First seen on Flickr on 24/06/2015 by Tofz4u)
[ Visited PA_1145 for the first time 22 days after invasion ]
NASA 73-HC-428, Kennedy Space Center, May 9, 1973: The Mobile Service Structure at right inches to the Skylab 2 space vehicle at Launch Complex 39b following the successful completion of the Countdown Demonstration Test or dress rehearsal for launch. Astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz participated in the test, having entered their spacecraft through the white room, clearly visible at end of Swing Arm 9. Skylab 1 is in background at Launch Complex 39a. Acquisition: NASA Skylab News Center, Cape Canaveral city, May 12, 1973. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
KSC INFO: Contracted in this view at Launch Complex 39a are the Skylab 1 launch vehicle that will carry the Nation's first space station to the Earth orbit, and the liquid oxygen storage tank which will supply more than 400,000 gallons of this oxidizer to the rocket's first and second stages during final prelaunch preparations. For release: May 4, 1973. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 73-HC-414 and 108-KSC-73PC-212, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: Skylab News Center, May 12, 1973.
NASA INFO: September 19, 1962. Project Gemini two-man spacecraft shown in comparison to the Mercury capsule at McDonnell Aircraft, St. Louis, Missouri, prime contractors. The Gemini spacecraft will weigh more than 3 tons or nearly double the weight of the Mercury craft. Innovations of the Gemini craft will include docking equipment to rendezvous with the Agena. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 62-GEMINI-19 (GEM.-45), US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
Now this looks brilliant! A spacerocket that will take us to another planet while nibbling at one of those tasty oh-so-long sausages from the German market. Mind-you whilst enjoying the smells of mulled wine and keeping an eye on the buses passing by I was also hearing the most alarming screaming coming from those who dared to venture the skyswing which rises to a height greater than the Scott Monument. Rumours of seat-graphics featuring the face of Sir Richard Branson are apparently not to be believed!
I love Christmas in Princes Street as it makes me all boyish and youthful again. There was nothing here in the '70's and the Capital used to be pretty boring at this time of year.
A Volvo B7TL Wright Eclipse Gemini stops to let passengers in the upper saloon see what they might enjoy if they're tempted to throw caution to the wind and have a go at flying high!
NASA 73-HC-415, Kennedy Space Center, May 4, 1973: The enshrouded Skylab Orbital Workshop and related hardware dominate this upper view of the Skylab 1/Saturn 5 launch vehicle, photographed from the mobile launcher's 360-foot level. The space station the nation's first- is scheduled for launch May 14, and will be visited by three astronaut crew during an eight-month period. Acquisition: NASA Skylab News Center, Cape Canaveral city, May 12, 1973. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
Experimenting with the offset 4-way SNOT brick (what do you call those things?) technique. Neoclassic Space, of course, because this is me. I think I actually prefer this on its stand and flying horizontally rather than standing on its tail like a classic rocket.
We are with the international press photographers who photographed all night, the pad 39a, with the moon rocket Saturn 5 (Apollo 17) at different locations. This is the sunrise and NASA teams are ready to fill the tanks of rocket. There are sounds of insects, frogs and birds in the wetlands. We are tired, but always amazed seen this rocket take off that night. It is a dream child realized. See a lunar rocket on its launch pad, same situation in the book of TINTIN ("Destination Moon", Hergé, First edition album (Belgium) published in 1953). WOW! Info., Scan and remastering Dan beaumont, Pierre-Paul Beaumont photo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut, Gagarin Art Museum in the City of Gagarin. The first man in space, April 12, 1961. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
Yuri Gagarin: The first man in space, "The best short documentary movie" April 12, 1961 VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0yGZjFXWU
GAGARIN, " Jules Bergman announces and explains the event ", ABC News Special, April 12, 1961 :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYucEQFYNf0
WIKIPEDIA INFO: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin"
This is the early version of the Horikawa floating satellite game with "Sattellite" misspelled on the box. The game comes with two plastic satellites, which hover in the air stream over the target board. Shoot them down with the dart gun. This is the same gun that was used with the Modern Toys Target Robot!
Vintage space toy made in Japan by Horikawa (S.H.)
This toy is FOR SALE at ToyTent.com
Today's reedit is a bit more subtle in areas than some of the others but I think it is a positive change. Here is the original www.flickr.com/photos/thetimethespace/5246645528/in/photo...
Photo Info: From the Reddit web site, "History in color". TEASER, for this photo perfectly colored. www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/162bzd/yuri_aleksey..., and www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
Yuri Gagarin: The first man in space, "The best short documentary movie" April 12, 1961 VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0yGZjFXWU
GAGARIN, " Jules Bergman announces and explains the event ", ABC News Special, April 12, 1961 :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYucEQFYNf0
WIKIPEDIA INFO: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin"
NASA INFO: FOR RELEASE: 1961: The flight configuration of the giant three-stage Saturn C-1 rocket is seen in the fabrication and assembly engineering division at the G. C. Marchall Space Flight Center, NASA, Huntsville, Alabama, dwarfed by 180' foot C-1 are a Juno 2 rocket (left rear) and a Mercury/Redstone rocket (front foreground). 4x5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 61-SAT-11 Saturn-3, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
WIKIPEDIA INFO CUTS: Origins[edit]
The program began in January 1955 and took shape in parallel with the Atlas (SM-65/HGM-16) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The Air Force's goal in launching the Titan program was twofold: one, to serve as a backup should Atlas fail; and two, to develop a large, two-stage missile with a longer range and bigger payload that also could serve as a booster for space flights[citation needed].
The Titan I was initially designated SM-68; it was later redesignated HGM-25A.
Characteristics[edit]
Produced by the Glenn L. Martin Company (which became "The Martin Company" in 1957), Titan I was a two-stage, liquid-fueled missile. The first stage delivered 300,000 pounds (1,330 kN) of thrust, the second stage 80,000 pounds (356 kN). The fact that Titan I, like Atlas, burned RP-1 and LOX meant that the oxidizer had to be loaded onto the missile just before launch from the underground storage tank, and the missile raised above ground on the enormous elevator system, exposing the missile for some time before launch. The complexity of the system combined with its relatively slow reaction time – fifteen minutes to load, raise and launch the first missile, made it a less effective weapon system.
Titan I utilized radio command guidance. The inertial guidance system originally intended for the missile was instead eventually deployed in the Atlas E missile. (The Atlas series was intended to be the first generation of American ICBMs and Titan II (as opposed to Titan I) was to be the second generation deployed). An inertial guidance system would have allowed Titan I, once launched, to guide itself independently to a pre-programmed target. It would not have relied upon continuous radio command signals from a ground location, or upon the ability to receive and react to such signals.
Titan I also was the first true multi-stage (two or more stages) design. Whereas in Atlas, all rocket engines were ignited at launch (including two small thrust vernier engines) due to the unreliable nature of the engines[citation needed], Titan I’s second stage engines were reliable enough to be ignited at altitude, after separation from the first stage booster; and its fuel tanks, engines, launch interface equipment, and launch pad thrust ring. Titan I’s ability to jettison this mass prior to the ignition of the second stage, meant that Titan I had a much greater total range (and a greater range per pound of second stage fuel) than Atlas, even if the total fuel load of Atlas had been greater.[citation needed]
The Titan I had an effective range of 5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km). When the first stage had finished consuming its propellant, it dropped away, thereby decreasing the mass of the vehicle. That made for a more efficient missile, which resulted in increased range and enabled a larger payload.
The warhead of the Titan I was an AVCO Mk 4 re-entry vehicle containing a W38 thermonuclear bomb with a yield of 3.75 megatons which was fuzed for either air burst or contact burst. The Mk 4 RV also deployed penetration aids in the form of mylar balloons which replicated the radar signature of the Mk 4 RV. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
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John Glenn 50th, Friendship seven (MA-6 mission) launch, Mercury/rocket, Pad-14, February 20, 1962: TEAZER SIZE PHOTO from National Geographic website (photo for sale). Kodachrome by National Geographic photographer Otis Imboden. AP INFO: MOVING SPACEWARD: Atlas rocket moves skyward from its launch pad at the Cape Canaveral missile test center carrying astronaut John Glenn inside the Mercury capsule into orbit around the earth. Other launch sites at the test center are shown in the foreground. AP, February 20, 1962.
Apollo 17 a terrific launch, Can not forgotten, 40 years ago, I was at the Press-site at the Kennedy Space Center accredited by NASA to witness with the greatest journalists of the time of the last Apollo lunar mission. Since December 3, I visit the facility launches, assembly and training. I attend all the press conferences (Alan Shepard, Rocco Petrone etc.). Also several photo shoots of the Saturn-5 day and night. It's been two days that I have not slept and around me, there is Walter Cronkite of CBS, Jules Bergman of ABC, Ralph Morse of Life magazine, whoops! Whener Von Braun passes before me. It is hot and humid as a summer night. After over 2 hours late, I am now with photographers on the side of Banana River, which separates us from the rocket launch to 3 miles. I stand by with a camera Bell & Howell Super 8 with Filmosound. Everyone is looking forward and hope that will not another disorder technique because the launch will be postponed a month. You will hear during the countdown and launch of clicks after all these cameras and you have the sound of a large transistor radio coverage with the launch of Apollo 17 in directly to a station. Now it's 0:33. In - 4 secs. ignition of five F-1 engines are visible with a big blinding flash of light. The sound is absent, but the ground shakes, it's an earthquake! At 0 sec. The rocket rises slowly to the ramp. The flame grows bright! This is a sunrise orange with light effects in the fire of diamonds. One can see bursts of shock waves that appear around the rocket. This is absolutely amazing! Everyone is hysterical. With more than 11 secs. The launch tower is clear and the sound comes from a violent blow, rumbling low frequencies and multiple clicks clear, as dozens of lashes. The rocket takes an angle in the sky and the sound becomes louder and extremely heavy with thunder in the tens to the second. We are totally overwhelmed by the noise. It's like a situation out of control and too impressive at the same time. Sound, we shot the belly and we hammered the entire body. Nothing can be comparable. The sky became illuminated like daylight, but like orange on Mars. Fantastic! Wonderful! Before me, the men went to the moon. This is wonderful and memorable ... I was 16, I was very serious, very aware and well documented to live this historic event. Dan Beaumont report. Pierre-Paul Beaumont photo.
ATTENTION APOLLO 17 : " A terrific launch ". EXCEPTIONAL REAL SOUND LIVE, Dan Beaumont film, December 7, 1972 VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
seen from a passing ship on the river weser at Bremen germany is what looks like a scrap heap that includes space rockets !
the markings seem to confirm this and a look at the internet reveals that there are businesses along the river that are concerned with space equipment--so perhaps it is someone's scrap pile of unwanted rockets ?
NASA S-73-27096, Johnson Space Center, May 25, 1973: The Skylab 2/Saturn 1b space vehicle is launched from Pad 39b, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 9a.m. (EDT), Friday, May 25, 1973. Skylab 2 is the first of three scheduled Skylab manned missions, aboard the Skylab 2Command/Service Module were Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz. The Skylab 2 CSM laten dooked with the Skylab 1 space station cluster in Earth orbit. In addition to the CSM and its launch escape system, the Skylab 2 space vehicle consisted of the Saturn 1b first (S-1b) stage and the Saturn 1b second (S-4b) stage (The Saturn 1/Saturn 5 space vehicle with the space station payload was launched from Pad-39 a on May 14, 1973). US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
I had before me a moon rocket "This is the last". That was the reality. Technicians and engineers working on the pad 39a, in the main tower and we see the Mobile Service Structure, that just released the Saturn 5 rocket. Sounds of the engines crawler carrier "piston engines sound" that we can hear very well. There are a lot activities. It was a great moment that strikes the imagination. Dan Beaumont. (Pierre Paul Beaumont photo), Dan Beaumont photo restoration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
Kennedy Space Center: We are in the early evening with the Skylab space station at the top of the last rocket Saturn 5, which will be launched tomorrow. Scan, restoration and information Dan Beaumont . (Pierre Paul Beaumont photo). www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
NASA INFO: Spacecraft fabrication at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. Manufacture of Mercury spacecraft at McDonnell plant, St. Louis, Mo. 4x5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, MR-1-16, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
NASM INFO: On November 29, 1961, the chimpanzee "Enos" made two orbits in this capsule on the Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5) mission. The flight followed the two American manned sub-orbital flights and the one-orbit, automated flight of a Mercury capsule on MA-4. MA-5 was the first orbital mission by an American primate. Because of a malfunctioning control jet and an overheated inverter, Enos was brought down after two orbits, instead of the three planned, but both problems could have been solved if an astronaut had been aboard. MA-5 met its two primary objectives, testing the spacecraft's environmental control system and the procedures for recovering an astronaut, and thus was considered a complete success. It paved the way for the first manned orbital flight, MA-6, by John Glenn in February 1962.
In September 1967 the Smithsonian received this artifact from the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) in Houston.
Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
KSC INFO: The Skylab 1 rocket, topped by its enshrouded Skylab 1 space station, was photographed through a launch pad camera's protective cover. The view was taken by a cameraman using a nonpad camera. The unmanned space station is scheduled to be launched from Complex 39a May 14, followed the next day by the lauching of the first three-man crew who will live and work aboard it in orbit for 28 days. The astronauts are Charles Conrad, Jr., mission commander; Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin, science pilot; and Paul J. Weitz, pilot. They will be launched from adjacent Complex 39b aboard Saturn 1b rocket. For release: Filed: May 9, 1973. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 108-KSC-73PC-223, 73HC-425 and 73h-418, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: Skylab News Center, May 15, 1973.
NASA 73-HC-160, Kennedy Space Center, February 26, 1973: Rollout of the Saturn 1b to be used to launch the first crew for the Skylab orbital workshop in May was successfully conducted at Complex 39's Pad B, February 26, 1973. Launch of the orbital workshop by a two-stage Saturn 5 is scheduled for May with launch of the Saturn 1b/Apollo scheduled for approximately 24 hours lader. Acquisition: NASA Skylab News Center, Cape Canaveral city, May 12, 1973. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
WIKIPEDIA: Apollo 15 launched on July 26, 1971, at 9:34 AM EDT from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. During the launch, the second stage of the Saturn V ignited when still close to the first stage, which could have caused a catastrophic event in which the exhaust of the first stage engine would have been forced back into the engine. Despite this, the rocket nominally reached an orbit around Earth a short time later. A couple of hours into the mission, the S-IVB third stage of the rocket reignited to propel the spacecraft out of Earth orbit and on to the Moon.[3]
A few days after launching from Florida, the spacecraft passed behind the far side of the Moon, where the Service Propulsion System engine on the Apollo Command/Service Module ignited for a six-minute burn to slow the craft down into an initial lunar orbit. Once the lowest point of altitude was reached in the orbit, the SPS engine was fired again to further stabilize the orbit of the Apollo CSM/Apollo Lunar Module stack and prepare for landing at Hadley.[3]. NASA PHOTO, REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
NASA INFO: Cape Canaveral, February 23, 1962, President John F. Kennedy stands next to John H. Glenn after presentation of the NASA Distinguished Service Award Medal in ceremonies held in front of Hanger S. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 62-MA6-172A (MA6-23), US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976 www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
NASA INFO: Mercury- Redstone 4 (MR-4) launched July 21, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Fifteen minute manned sub-orbital flight by astronaut Virgil I. Grissom. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, M-4-16, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976 www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
The airframe just goes on and on and on - truly massive.
The Saturn V (spoken as "Saturn five") was an American human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1966 and 1973. The three-stage liquid-fuelled launch vehicle was developed to support the Apollo programme for human exploration of the Moon, and was later used to launch Skylab, the first American space station.
The Saturn V was launched 13 times from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with no loss of crew or payload. As of 2016, the Saturn V remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful (highest total impulse) rocket ever brought to operational status, and holds records for the heaviest payload launched and largest payload capacity to low Earth orbit (LEO) of 140,000 kg which included the third stage and unburned propellant needed to send the Apollo Command/Service Module and Lunar Module to the Moon.
The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, it was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL., 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 A-12, in Germany during World War II.
To date, the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle for missions to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit. A total of 15 flight-capable vehicles were built, but only 13 were flown. An additional three vehicles were built for ground testing purposes. A total of 24 astronauts were launched to the Moon, three of them twice, in the four years spanning December 1968 through December 1972.
Seen at the Space Museum in Huntsville, Alabama in 1998, this exhibit is now housed indoors in the Davidson Center for Space Exploration.
Scanned from a negative.
From the magazine article “Seeking Power for Space Rockets”:
“Scientists are hard-headed men. They do not speculate on traveling to the moon every time they see a sky rocket. They say simply: ‘We are experimenting with fuels for rockets. We’ve found out a few things. It may be that in the reasonably near future science will succeed in sending a rocket higher than any man-made contrivance ever traveled before. Perhaps such a rocket might reach an altitude of 500,000 feet. If a rocket could be shot that high, it could carry recording instruments which would gather information of the greatest importance. A rocket to the moon. . . Men still dream of that. But science deals with facts. Still, the dream is perhaps a little bit nearer realization.’
“Behind that simple statement is another chapter in man’s struggle to escape the chains of gravity which bind him to one planet.”
This is the last time that NASA sends humans to the moon. You look Saturn-5 moon rocket that will make a fantastic show with this launch night. Currently, technicians are fuelling the tanks of the most powerful rocket in the world. The countdown continues ... We see now from Press-site view (3 miles), the launch pad with Apollo 17 and of several powerful searchlights. It is a vision that I'll remember all my life. We are witnessing a great historic event. Dan Beaumont. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont, Pierre-Paul Beaumont photo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
KSC INFO: Dr. K. Debus, KSC Director and Dr. V. Von Braun pose in front of a 365-foot-tall Apollo Saturn 5 facilities vehicle which is being moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building and will be transported to the launch complex. This test vehicle, designated the Apollo Saturn 500-f, will never make the journey to the moon, however. It is being used to verify launch facilities, train launch crews, and develop test and checkout procedures. The first flight vehicle is scheduled to arrive later this year. Following the procedures which will be used during preparation for the actual lunar launch, the 500-F was assembled on a mobile launcher in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. A 3,000 ton crawler will move under the mobile launcher, lifting the launcher and the assembled vehicle off its support pedestals. The combined weight of the launcher and space vehicle will be almost 6,000 tons. FOR REALEASE: May 25, 1966. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 66-HC-295, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976.