The “V” stood for the five giant F-1 rocket engines—still the most powerful ever built—clustered at the bottom of the Saturn V’s ... and we’d blow up the bomb to determine how big ...

To meet the challenge of putting a man on the Moon, the Apollo space program needed a rocket more powerful and advanced than any that had ever been seen before. The final result was the Saturn V ...

It was pitch black outside as our bus approached the launch site. In the distance, we could see the Saturn V rocket poised on the launch pad—stark white in the beams of arc lights—venting ...