Why Has No Rocket Surpassed Saturn V? Despite advances in technology, no rocket has matched Saturn V’s power and size. But ...
Saturn V SA-513, the rocket tasked with deploying Skylab ... Retro-rockets pushed the S-IC away from the S-II second stage, whose five J-2 engines ignited to take over the job of boosting Skylab ...
The Saturn V rocket was the largest rocket ever at that point — although SpaceX's Starship topped it when it took flight in 2024. The rocket needed to be incredibly powerful to break from the ...
To this day, no other rocket has launched human beings as far, or eclipsed the Saturn V's colossal size. So how much fuel does it take to catapult a titan like the 363-foot-tall Saturn V into space?