Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, under the guidance of aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, the Saturn V rocket stood at an impressive 363 feet tall, equivalent to a 36-story building.
Shake it like you mean it. The race to land man on the moon in the 1960s was a wild time for engineers, who were working at the edge of what was possible to try and fly a rocket the size of a 25 ...
Like earlier Saturn V missions, the rocket was assembled in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, with build-up commencing on Aug. 2, 1972. The rocket was stacked atop Mobile ...
the 363-foot rocket was as tall as a 36-story building. Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V ...