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Saturn V

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Launch Status
Success

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

217 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.

Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Rocket

Saturn V – National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  • Family: Saturn
  • Length: 110.6 m
  • Diameter: 10.1 m
  • Launch Mass: 2970 T
  • Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 140000 kg

The Saturn V was manufactured by National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the first launch on 1967-11-09. Saturn V has 12 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 13 launches. The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world’s tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.

Agency

National Aeronautics and Space Administration – NASA

  • Type: Government
  • Abbreviation: NASA
  • Administration: Administrator: Bill Nelson
  • Founded: 1958
  • Launchers: Space Shuttle | SLS
  • Spacecraft: Orion
  • Country: USA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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