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Apollo 6 Mission

Apollo 6, launched on April 4, 1968, was the Apollo program's second and last unmanned test flight of its Saturn V launch vehicle. While the vehicle experienced a number of significant malfunctions, the flight nonetheless provided NASA with enough confidence in the Saturn V to proceed to manned launches.

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  1. Earthrise
    Earthrise

    Sun, 15 Feb 2009

    James Lovell, and William Anders were launched atop a Saturn V rocket on December 21, circled the Moon ten times in their commandjourney to the Earth's Moon, the first to fly using the Saturn V rocket , and the first to photograph the Earth from deep space

  2. Discovery in Motion
    Discovery in Motion

    Sat, 8 Jul 2006

    the orbiter, booster rockets, and external fuel tank ride on one of NASA's workhorse crawler transporters. Built for the Apollo program to carry the giant Saturn V rocket , the crawler transporters have seen four decades of service.

  3. Earthrise
    Earthrise

    Sat, 24 Dec 2005

    crew flew from the Earth to the Moon and back again. Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders were launched atop a Saturn V rocket on December 21, circled the Moon ten times in their command module, and returned to Earth on December 27. The Apollo

  4. Earth Rise from Apollo 8
    Earth Rise from Apollo 8

    Sun, 16 Nov 2003

    to the Moon and back . The crew, consisting of Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders, were launched atop a Saturn V rocket on December 21, circled the Moon ten times in their command module, and landed back on Earth on December 27. The Apollo

  5. The Last Moon Shot
    The Last Moon Shot

    Sat, 18 Oct 2003

    carrying three adventurers to the Moon. Over 100 years later, NASA, guided by Wernher Von Braun's vision, produced the Saturn V rocket . From a spaceport in Florida, this rocket turned Verne's fiction into fact, launching 9 Apollo Lunar missions and allowing

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  1. RestoredSaturn V Rocket Unveiled

    Fri, 20 Jul 2007Text

    By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Dwarfed by the Saturn V rocket's immense size, 10-year-old Adam Brauscum stood in awe as his father described how such massive machinery carried man to the moon. "It's ……scale and enterprise involved with the space program as much as the Saturn V rocket," Needell said. "It would be tragic if people could understand the scale of it only through pictures or movies. There is nothing …

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ARTICLES (41)

  1. Jim Albaugh Welcomes South Carolina to Boeing Family

    Fri, 20 Nov 2009

    …century. In World War II, we produced airplanes vital to winning the war. We helped put a man on the moon-we built the Saturn V rocket . We built the satellites that bring you the news live. And with the 707, we brought the world into the jet age. I want …

  2. NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection

    Fri, 26 Jun 2009

    …first director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and a key figure in the development of the Saturn V rocket and NASA's Apollo program. NASA has a full collection of "Weekly Notes" von Braun wrote during the 1960s and 1970s …

  3. Artist Show NASA In A Different Light

    Sat, 16 May 2009

    …and Michael Collins from the Pacific Ocean and others went to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see the Saturn V rocket lift off. Dean accompanied the group to Kennedy. "It was like the eighth wonder of the world to see that Saturn V illuminated in the night and to hear …

REFERENCE LIBRARY

  1. von Braun, Wernher

    Tue, 19 Oct 2004

    …and his later dream to help mankind set foot on the moon became a reality on July 16, 1969 when a Marshall-developed Saturn V rocket launched the crew of Apollo 11. Over the course of the Apollo program, six teams of astronauts explored the surface of …