Saturn V rocket

Saturn V

The final manned Saturn V, AS-512, before the launch of Apollo 17 in December 1972
Function	Apollo lunar program Launch of Skylab
Manufacturer	Boeing (S-IC) North American (S-II) Douglas (S-IVB)
Country of origin	United States
Project cost	$6.417 billion in 1964–73 dollars
Cost per launch	$185 million in 1969–71 dollars, ($1.16 billion in 2016 value) of which $110 million was for vehicle.
Size
Height	363.0 ft (110.6 m)
Diameter	33.0 ft (10.1 m)
Mass	6,540,000 lb (2,970,000 kg)
Stages	3
Capacity
Payload to LEO (90 nmi (170 km), 30° inclination)	310,000 lb (140,000 kg)
Payload to TLI	107,100 lb (48,600 kg)
Associated rockets
Family	Saturn
Derivatives	Saturn INT-21
Comparable	N1 rocket
Launch history
Status	Retired
Launch sites	LC-39, Kennedy Space Center
Total launches	13
Successes	12
Failures	0
Partial failures	1 (Apollo 6)
First flight	November 9, 1967 (AS-501Apollo 4)
Last flight	May 14, 1973 (AS-513 Skylab 1)
First stage - S-IC
Length	138.0 ft (42.1 m)
Diameter	33.0 ft (10.1 m)
Empty mass	287,000 lb (130,000 kg)
Gross mass	5,040,000 lb (2,290,000 kg)
Engines	5 Rocketdyne F-1
Thrust	7,891,000 lbf (35,100 kN) sea level
Specific impulse	263 seconds (2.58 km/s) sea level
Burn time	165 seconds
Fuel	RP-1/LOX
Second stage - S-II
Length	81.5 ft (24.8 m)
Diameter	33.0 ft (10.1 m)
Empty mass	88,400 lb (40,100 kg)
Gross mass	1,093,900 lb (496,200 kg)
Engines	5 Rocketdyne J-2
Thrust	1,155,800 lbf (5,141 kN) vacuum
Specific impulse	421 seconds (4.13 km/s) vacuum
Burn time	360 seconds
Fuel	LH2/LOX
Third stage - S-IVB
Length	61.6 ft (18.8 m)
Diameter	21.7 ft (6.6 m)
Empty mass	29,700 lb (13,500 kg)
Gross mass	271,000 lb (123,000 kg)
Engines	1 Rocketdyne J-2
Thrust	225,000 lbf (1,000 kN) vacuum
Specific impulse	421 seconds (4.13 km/s) vacuum
Burn time	165 + 335 seconds (2 burns)
Fuel	LH2/LOX

The Saturn V (spoken as "Saturn five") was an American human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. The three-stage liquid-fueled super heavy-lift launch vehicle was developed to support the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon, and was later used to launch Skylab, the first American space station. The Saturn V was launched 13 times from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with no loss of crew or payload. As of 2017^[update], the Saturn V remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful (highest total impulse) rocket ever brought to operational status, and holds records for the heaviest payload launched and largest payload capacity to low Earth orbit (LEO) of 140,000 kg (310,000 lb), which included the third stage and unburned propellant needed to send the Apollo Command/Service Module and Lunar Module to the Moon.

The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors.