NASA Saturn V Apollo 11
Saturn V
Status
Success
Date
16 JUL 1969
13:32
Launch Provider
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Launch Pad
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission Overview
Apollo 11 was commanded by Neil Armstrong , Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" E. Aldrin. The Mission was to complete the goal that President John F. Kennedy set on May 25, 1961 to land a man on the moon and return the crew back to Earth. On July 20,1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there Lunar Module on the sea of tranquility this marked the first time a human has set foot upon another celestial body.
Rocket
Saturn V
Mission Type
Human Exploration
Orbit
Lunar Orbit
Stages
3
Livestream
Rocket Details
The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.
Height
110.6 m
Diameter
10.1 m
Launch Mass
2,970 T
Thrust
35,100 kN