This is the second, or S-II-F/D, or Facilities Checkout/Dynamic Test Stage, of the Saturn V launch vehicle. This stage of the rocket was not meant to fly but was used for ground tests pior to the ...

On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA cancelled the production of its Saturn V rocket. The giant rocket was the only launch vehicle to have ever carried astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, and it was the largest ...

The Saturn V rocket is widely known as the rocket that brought humans to the moon. It required considerable speed to escape Earth's gravitational force.