Page 20 - Apollo Moonships

18 on board apollo moonships
363 ft
SATURN THE GIANT
With 363 feet high, 33 feet in diameter, a combined three-stage thrust of about 9 million pounds, and a payload capacity of 118 tons to the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and 45 tons towards the moon, the Saturn V remains the biggest, heaviest, and most powerful operational rocket ever built. The Apollo lunar program used 12 Saturn V rockets, ten of them on manned missions.
A ROCKET TO FLY TO THE MOON
The Saturn V was the largest of the three types of Saturn rockets developed between 1960 and 1963 by the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. It was built specifically to send astronauts to the moon and consisted of three phases driven by liquid-fuel rocket engines. The first stage, called S-IC, provided 7.6 million pounds of thrust, while the second and third sections (known as S-II and S-IVB) generated a driving force of 1.06 and 0.225 million pounds, respectively. The first Saturn V was launched in 1967 as part of a flight test to the Low Earth Orbit: the Apollo 4 mission. The first manned mission that flew on it was Apollo 8, which circumnavigated the moon in December 1968. All subsequent Apollo missions were also propelled by this rocket, which was last used in May 1973 to launch the Skylab orbital workshop, the first U.S. space station.
APOLLO 4 MISSION
This image shows the Saturn V rocket SA-501 on the A-39 launch pad in Kennedy Space Center, Florida, prior to the launch of the Apollo 4 test mission on November 9, 1967.
Launch Escape System
340 ft
330 ft
310 ft
279 ft
246 ft
220 ft
Boost protective cover
Command Module or CM (below boost protective cover)
Service Module (SM)
Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA)
Lunar Excursion Module (LEM)
Instrument unit (IU) Third Stage S–IVB
Liquid fuel Tank Interstage ring
J–2 Engine Second Stage S–II Liquid fuel Tank
Interstage ring
J–2 Engine (5) First Stage S–IC
Liquid fuel Tank
Liquid fuel Tank
Fin
157 ft
138 ft
84 ft
52 ft 40 ft
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F–1 engine (5)