The Saturn V on display at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX
Note the people observing so you see just how huge it is.
The Saturn V, as you may know, made every manned Apollo space mission possible. It is a three-stage rocket 110.6m long, 10m wide, and weighs 3,039,000kg. It really seems bigger up close in
person. NASA made 15 Saturn V Rockets from 1957 to 1976, and each one took 5 years to complete. The first stage has 4,400,000 Newtons of force. (1,000,000 pounds-force) It burns for a total of 500 seconds, with 7 total Rocketdyne engines manufactured by Boeing, North American, and Douglas aircraft manufacturers. It has since been decommissioned by NASA, unfortunately. I wish the Apollo Mission Series hadn't been canceled.
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