[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into orbit and onwards towards the moon – for a while now. Even though ...
On 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's ...
Based on NASA’s optimism about its future in the mid-sixties, it was overbuilt, with four vertical bays, each one of which could contain a Saturn V. There were to be three launch pads ...
To compare, Saturn V rocket engines fell and sank to the bottom of the ocean after launch. Not reusable, to say the least. And each Saturn V cost up to $189 million to launch in 1969 — $1.23 ...