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To meet the challenge of putting a man on the Moon, the Apollo space program needed a rocket more powerful and advanced than any that had ever been seen before. The final result was the Saturn V, the ...

The Saturn I rocket, developed by Wernher von Braun's team since 1957, was designed to facilitate American lunar ambitions, integrating components and reusing hardware from existing missile ...

The Saturn V did not cruise to the Moon at a single speed, it accelerated through distinct phases, briefly peaking at a blistering velocity during the burn that hurled Apollo spacecraft out of Earth ...