First Saturn V Test, April 23, 1966

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• First Saturn V Test
• April 23
• 1966

[UndeadPizzaGuy]

@wsbill14224 Money wasn't the only problem. Korolev, the designer of their lunar rocket, died of a heart attack years earlier. Even if they had the money, it would be like us trying to build a Saturn V without Von Braun, it just couldn't be done.

[wsbill14224]

@Ferrariman601 This is what I grew-up with. We were a great nation once upon a time!

[wsbill14224]

America wasn't lucky. Going to the Moon meant no financial compromises, but the Soviet Union had to compromise as they were a much poorer country than the USA. As such they had to do more with less. They did what they could and still are, but once the Americans got to the Moon there was no point in spending the money to get there second.

[Ferrariman601]

So...

This is what my country used to do?

I want MORE please.

[Blahblobify]

@leokimvideo

Still waiting for someone to come in second, 43 years and counting. The N1 had a lunar payload capability of HALF the Saturn V it's doubtful the Russians could have made it even if it did work. Trying to make a lunar landing with something that weighed 50% less would have been a real problem.

[leokimvideo]

@Blahblobify i'm not big on sarcasm when it involves people who are already fighting to be represented correctly in history, when ever I see the Saturn 5 I know the family of rockets it's derived from

I wonder if in the film Apollo 13 they ever included Von Braun as part of the story, maybe someone out there will know as i feel Hollywood has some major problems with some key people in history

Just think yourself lucky the N1 rocket failed, the glory of being second place is not quite the same

[leokimvideo]

@Blahblobify well from the books I see he's not even mentioned, possibly in some people's eyes he's not worthy, linking the US space program to a terror weapon designer and father figure of rocketry will always have some running for cover, from memory Mr Disney was brought in to soften the impact

maybe you could edit the wiki page and add in the missing 10.000 other names who were propping up Werner who had the vision of doing it all

Houston, we have a problem

[Shuttheheckup735]

@MarsFKA

If all the fuel in one Saturn V blew up at once, the explosion wouldn't be far off the explosion that leveled Hiroshima. So no crap.

[Shuttheheckup735]

@rietveen26

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[leokimvideo]

@Blahblobify from wiki, it worth remembering these facts, yep there is one in every crown, Von Braun is the one

Von Braun worked on the US Army intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) program before his group was assimilated by NASA, under which he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.