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NASA’s Saturn V produced 7.6 million pounds of thrust, stood 363 feet tall, and sent 24 astronauts to the Moon without losing one — then in 1973 it was retired, its tooling scrapped, and nothing as powerful left Earth for almost 50 years.

From three miles away, the first thing to reach the press site was light. Then the sound arrived as force, shaking tripods and cracking...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 25, 2026

NASA Saturn V Rocket Exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image by Harry J. Kazianis.

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57 years ago today, three astronauts lifted off atop a Saturn V aimed so precisely at the Moon that the trip needed just two course corrections — and the route home was a “free return,” designed to carry them back without the engines ever firing

Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous flight ever...

Brent M. EastwoodJuly 16, 2026

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The Saturn V remains the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown, so violent at liftoff that its first launch shattered ceiling tiles in a control room three miles away — and more than half a century after it carried astronauts to the Moon, nothing humanity has built has matched it.

19FortyFive recently went to the Apollo/Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center for a firsthand look at the most powerful machine humanity has ever...

Brandon WeichertJune 30, 2026

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All posts tagged "Saturn V"

Space and Technology

NASA’s Saturn V produced 7.6 million pounds of thrust, stood 363 feet tall, and sent 24 astronauts to the Moon without losing one — then in 1973 it was retired, its tooling scrapped, and nothing as powerful left Earth for almost 50 years.

Space and Technology

57 years ago today, three astronauts lifted off atop a Saturn V aimed so precisely at the Moon that the trip needed just two course corrections — and the route home was a “free return,” designed to carry them back without the engines ever firing

Space and Technology

The Saturn V remains the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown, so violent at liftoff that its first launch shattered ceiling tiles in a control room three miles away — and more than half a century after it carried astronauts to the Moon, nothing humanity has built has matched it.

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