The SLS will provide the U.S. with a capability for science and human exploration that we have not had since the Saturn V of the Apollo era.

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At 180 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, the Falcon 9 rocket is tiny in comparison to the football-field-long Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo spacecraft into orbit.

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The factory is built on the site of the the Redstone Arsenal, which produced the earliest U.S. rockets, including the Saturn V, which took Apollo astronauts to the Moon.

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The weight of the lunar module, on top of the command and service module, was the main reason why the Saturn V rockets that shot Apollo astronauts into space needed to be the tallest, heaviest and most powerful ever flown, a record they still hold.

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You know, kind of like when Sidney Bristo (Alias) is racing down an exhaust vent to 'disarm' a satellite gizmo on a random rocket just before the launch and therefore the utter distruction of the world but the rocket they show is the Saturn V used in the Apollo program.

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We no longer have the Saturn V rockets that carried the Apollo capsules.

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In 1967, The first Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.

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Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled plans to recover the F-1 engines that powered the Saturn V rocket carrying Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

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It was 1969, and a Saturn V rocket assembled by Boeing--Seattle's biggest employer--had just delivered the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon.

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From the seemingly insurmountable problems of getting each stage of the Saturn V to work, to the challenges of making the Command Module safe following the fire that killed the first Apollo astronauts, even the engineers would have told you at times that they didn't think it could be done.

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