Legend has it that the Saturn V launch for Apollo 11 melted concrete with the sheer power of its sound. Acoustic sensors from the SLS launch for Artemis I will show if that's true.

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Scientists disproved a myth claiming the Saturn V rocket tested on the Apollo 4 mission in 1967 was loud enough to melt concrete. Credit: NASA/Getty Images ...

Saturn is a hybrid of eight 165,000-lb. engines clustered together like a bundle of cigars. As it stood on its Canaveral launching pad, the rocket towered 162 ft. high, weighed 462 tons.

Sometimes, though, that instinct can pay off in big, unexpected ways. Like how this guy happened to notice a rocket motor from a Saturn rocket just sitting in a Missouri scrapyard.

After viewing the moon rocket with his children, Hightower started sketching and eventually developed a concept he thought to be a "more fitting container" for the Saturn V.

The Saturn V rocket was able to attain 24,791 miles per hour with Apollo 10, setting the record for the fastest reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

The Saturn V rocket remains one of NASA's greatest technological achievements—a powerful launch vehicle that finally brought the Moon within reach.

The Saturn V was used for the entire Apollo program, culminating in the last mission to the Moon, Apollo 17 in 1972. The big rocket was also used to launch Nasa’s first space station, Skylab, in ...