Saturn V
Saturn familyNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationRetired
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
- LEO capacity
- 140,000 kg
Specifications from Launch Library. Figures the operator has not published are omitted.
Flight record
13flightswith a definitive outcome
92.3%success rate12 of 13
11success streakcurrent
Counted from padside's own launch record, the same basis as the stats page.