RetiredNASAFirst Launch: 1967-11-09
Saturn V
Three-stage super heavy-lift rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon and launched Skylab; remains the most powerful rocket ever successfully flown to orbit.
SpaceStats Reliability & Flight Record
TOTAL LAUNCHES
13
Orbital missions
SUCCESSFUL
12
1 failures
SUCCESS RATE
92.3%
LANDINGS
0
Expendable Vehicle
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Orbital Launch Vehicle
Orbit Deck Space Catalog
Technical & Propulsion Specifications
Operator: NASAVehicle Dimensions & Mass
- Overall Height
- 111 m
- Body Diameter
- 10 m
- Gross Lift-off Mass
- 2,965.2 t
- Stages Count
- 3
- Fairing Diameter
- 6.6 m
Stage 1 (Booster)
- Recovery Mode
- Expendable
Stage 2 & Capacities
- LEO Capacity
- 140 t
- TLI (Lunar)
- 43.5 t
- Cost per Launch
- $185,000,000
- LEO Price / kg
- ~$1,321 / kg
High-Resolution Photo Gallery & Media
2 photos & renders of Saturn V
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LiftoffOrbital Launch Vehicle
Commercial orbital rocket ascending from coastal launch range.
Orbit Deck Space Catalog
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PadLaunch Pad Gantry
Orbital launch mount and ground support umbilical tower.
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SpaceStats Launch Manifest & Database
0 mission records cataloged in database
No individual manifest entries logged in database for Saturn V.
Summary stats and flight achievements are detailed in the overview above.