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Saturn V

NASA RETIRED
At a glance
Launches
13
Success rate
92.3%
12 ok · 1 failed
Payload to LEO
140,000 kg
Payload to GTO
—
Status
Retired
First flight
09 Nov 1967
Reusable
No
Height
110.6 m
Diameter
10.1 m
Launch mass
2,970 t
Liftoff thrust
35,100 kN
Stages
3
Launch cost
—
Booster landings
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About

The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.