Saturn V

Saturn family · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Retired

The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.

Specifications

Thrust: 35,100 kN
Height: 110.6 m
Diameter: 10.1 m
Launch mass: 2,970 t
Stages: 3
Launch cost: —
LEO capacity: 140,000 kg
GTO capacity: —
GEO capacity: —
SSO capacity: —

Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.

Flight record

Flights

Launches with a definitive outcome

Success rate

92.3%

12 of 13

Current success streak

Landings

0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS

Fastest turnaround

—

Between consecutive booster flights

Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.