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Saturn V

Skylab: NASA Commemorates 40th Anniversary of America’s First Space Station – Photo Gallery/Broadcast

May 13, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Skylab was America’s first space station. The massive orbital workshop was launched unmanned to Earth orbit 40 years ago on May 14, 1973 atop the last of NASA’s Saturn V rockets that successfully lofted American’s astronauts on the historic lunar landings [...]

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Apollo Rocket Engines Recovered from Atlantic Ocean Floor

March 20, 2013

Last year, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos announced that he had located some of the Apollo F-1 rocket engines and planned to recover them. He and his Bezos Expedition team were successful in recovering engines that helped power Apollo astronauts to the Moon and have now brought “a couple of your F-1s home,” Bezos said in [...]

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Apollo 17: 40 Years Ago Today

December 7, 2012

The launch of Apollo 17. Credit: NASA It was the end of an era. At 12:33 a.m. (EST) on Dec. 7, 1972 the monstrous Saturn V rocket blasted off for the final Apollo mission to the Moon. It was a stunning sight, as it was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V. Aboard the [...]

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Book Review: The Final Journey of the Saturn V

June 8, 2012

Book review by David L. Hamilton The Final Journey of the Saturn V, by Andrew R. Thomas and Paul N. Thomarios is a good book to add to this summer’s reading list. The nontechnical person should not be deterred by the title since the majority of the book covers the history of the rocket and [...]

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Now Witness the Firepower of This Fully Operational (and slow motion) Saturn V

April 26, 2010

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo. This is so cool – and impressive, most impressive! A 16mm camera located near the base of the Saturn V rocket captured incredible detail about the ignition and lift off of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. The high-quality video slows [...]

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