Saturn V Launch Montage

This montage consists of footage from three different launches of the Saturn V moon rocket, the most powerful vehicle ever ridden by man into space. All three missions featured here were successful lunar landings and feature Apollo 11 (1969), Apollo 15 (1971) and Apollo 17 (1972).

Footage and static images courtesy of NASA, and are available in the public domain for educational and informational use.

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• NASA
• Rocket
• Apollo
• Space
• Moon
• Aerospace
• 1969
• 1971
• 1972

[kzbxvz]

The Apollo project never had any fatalites, the Space Shuttle two!

[cag1970]

@kzbxvz, that's actually not true. Apollo had 3 fatalities - the fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew in 1967 - and that set the program back almost two years. The first manned flight, which should've happened early in 1967, didn't occur until October, 1968.

[jedikenneth]

@cag1970 And don't forget the explosion of the oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13.

[cag1970]

@jedikenneth, the crew of Apollo 13 survived their ordeal - but just. If the explosion had've occurred AFTER they landed on the Moon, the outcome would've been different.

[260KPH]

more thrust than the space shuttle launch!

[cag1970]

@260KPH, indeed it was. Even before considering the uprate on the F-1 engines, the Saturn V had a 1 million-pound thrust advantage on the shuttle stack.

[barthoedemaker]

Thanks to President John F Kennedy, sadly he was murdered. But his words became reality... he put a man on the moon.

[per1161]

What I would give to have been on that plane. sad that the apollo missions were stopped before my time

[IASOU2005]

Space shuttle isn't even worthy of being a chase plane for this big son of a bitch.

[joachim2464]

But will it blend?

[marcopiu82]

tower clear

[HaoleTom]

Saturn V doesn't lift off the pad; it pushes the Earth out from under it...the most magnificent machine ever built!

[jetfreak4]

@kzbxvz The space shuttle had at least 10 fatalities in terms if crew members. Two accidents leading to the loss of two different shuttles.

[seve1024]

the only reason the russians cant do it is because they dont have a satern v

[Spendude56]

This was on my Snapple Cap.. so i Google it :D

[aAgent86]

should do it again! to mars this time, but would settle for a return to the moon

[jetfreak4]

Not only the most powerful rocket, but also the tallest and the heaviest in terms of both gross weight and maximum payload.