NASA Announces the Saturn V: The Rocket That Reaches the Moon
Twelve engineers. One crazy dream. NASA just dropped a bombshell that would turn rocket science from math into mythology. The C-5 rocket—soon rechristened Saturn V—wasn't just another machine. It was a 363-foot steel monster that could punch through Earth's atmosphere carrying humanity's wildest ambition. And nobody knew it yet, but this rocket would become the most powerful machine ever built by human hands, capable of generating 7.6 million pounds of thrust. Enough to fling three men toward the Moon like a cosmic slingshot.
January 10, 1962
64 years ago
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