The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. Von Braun's design was based in part on his work on the Aggregate series of rockets, especially the A-10, A-11, and A-12, in Germany during World War II at Peenemunde.
The Saturn V (spoken as "Saturn five" and in Dutch Saturnus Vijf ) was an American expendable rocket used by NASA between 1966 and 1973 and used for the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. The Saturn V was launched 13 times from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with no loss of crew or payload. The Saturn V remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and still holds records for the heaviest payload launched and largest payload capacity to low Earth orbit (LEO) of 118,000 kilograms (260,000 lb). To date, the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle able to transport human beings beyond low Earth orbit. A total of 24 astronauts were launched to the Moon, three of them twice, in the four years spanning December 1968 through December 1972. It was later used to launch Skylab, the first American space station.
Saturn V rocket of the Apollo program. On display at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida (USA). Seen is the S-IC-T (test stage) and the second and third stages and various other displays in several galleries below....
Photographed, February 2012 by Cees Hendriks , (C) Copyright IPMS Nederland
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Several scale models exits of the Saturn Rocket in various modelling scales. Revell has a 1/144 scale model as well as Airfix. Dragon has a very big 1/72 model and APOGEE has a 1/70 model.