to LEO Planned payloads: Cargo, astronauts Saturn V The Saturn V launched the first-ever astronauts to land on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission took off July 16, 1969. Even after the Falcon Heavy ...

As of 2024, the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle to carry people outside of Low Earth Orbit (LEO), and it carried a hefty payload. The Saturn V's Rocketdyne J-2 engines had to push more ...

To honor the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum -- has started projecting the image of a 363-foot Saturn V rocket onto the east face of ...

300: The amount, in tons, that the reusable ITS booster will be able to launch to low Earth orbit (LEO). The Saturn V could loft 135 tons to LEO, Musk said. (An expendable version of the ITS would ...

SLS will be the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V, but will surpass the vaunted old rocket, even as it launches the new Orion spacecraft on a lunar flyby in a mission configuration ...

Today: Busting the popular myth that the Saturn V launch was loud enough to melt concrete. "The Saturn V has taken on this sort of legendary, apocryphal status," said co-author Kenneth Gee of ...