ABOUT SATURN V
The Saturn V was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under Wernher von Braun for the Apollo program. Standing 110.6 meters tall with 7.5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, it remains the most powerful rocket ever flown successfully. It launched all crewed lunar missions and the Skylab space station.
NOTABLE MISSIONS
| 🚀 Apollo 11 u2013 First Moon landing |
| 🚀 Apollo 13 u2013 Successful failure |
| 🚀 Skylab launch |
LEGACY & LASTING IMPACT
Enabled the first crewed Moon landings and remains the benchmark for heavy-lift rocketry
PROGRAM DETAILS
| Category | Launch Vehicle |
| Era | Space Race |
| Agency | NASA |
| Country | United States |
| Start Date | 1967-11-09 |
| End Date | 1973-05-14 |
| Total Flights | 13 |
| Success Rate | 100% |
| Successor | Space Launch System (SLS) |
PROGRAM COST
| Original Cost | $6.42 billion |
| Inflation-Adjusted | $49.9 billion (2020) |
KEY FIGURES
TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED
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