Skylab was, therefore, the second space station ... with the five F-1 engines of the S-IC first stage powering Saturn aloft. After clearing the tower the rocket began a pitch-and-roll maneuver ...
The Saturn V rocket was the largest rocket ever at ... When fully fueled, the second stage weighed 1.06 million pounds and was responsible for accelerating the rocket through the upper atmosphere.
The Saturn IB rocket ... stage separation. Helium ingestion in propellant lines, however, resulted in lower thrust than predicted during the first burn and the same problem also affected a second ...
It was the second consecutive test flight of the most powerful rocket ever built where the upper-stage spacecraft malfunctioned ... than 100 new moons around Saturn, possibly the result of ...