On Apollo 11, TLI came at 2 hours and 44 minutes after launch. The S-IVB burned for almost six minutes, giving the spacecraft a velocity close to the Earth's escape velocity of 25,053 mph (40,319 km/h). This gave an energy-efficient transfer to lunar orbit, with the Moon helping to capture the spacecraft with a minimum of CSM fuel consumption. [11]

Apr 29, 2022 · The Saturn V rocket powered the Apollo missions, changing the course of spaceflight forever. Here we explore this impressive rocket in more detail.

Drawing showing the Apollo 11 rocket and spacecraft in the launch configuration. Once the “how” had been answered, a new spacecraft needed to be designed to take the astronauts to the Moon and back. This new spacecraft comprised three parts: the command module, the service module and the lunar module.

Jul 16, 2019 · It was the only part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that came back from the moon. Designing, testing and building it was a monumental task, according to two engineers who were part of the effort.

Designed and developed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, under German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun, it was the most powerful rocket ever built: a huge, three-stage leviathan, weighing more than 3,000 tonnes …

A Saturn V rocket carrying the three Apollo 11 astronauts blasted off from Cape Kennedy. Over a million spectators, including Vice President Spiro Agnew and former President Lyndon Johnson, came to watch the lift off.

Apr 29, 2022 · Designed to fly three Apollo astronauts to the moon and back, the Saturn V made its first unmanned test flight in 1967.

Jul 5, 2018 · On July 16, 1969 at 9:31 am EDT, the Florida landscape around the Kennedy Space Center shook as Apollo 11 lifted off on its historic mission to take the first astronauts the Moon.

Jan 20, 2025 · What was the Apollo 11 rocket called? The Saturn V rocket launched Apollo 11. It made its flight from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral), Florida, before hundreds of thousands of spectators. Who were the crew members of Apollo 11? When did Apollo 11 land on the Moon?

Jun 21, 2021 · In the two-man cabin of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, slowly riding down its vertical rocket jet, blue signal lights flash on. Probes dangling 60 inches below the disk-shaped footpads have...