The Saturn V was an American expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and

Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973.

A multistage liquid-fueled booster, NASA launched 13 Saturn Vs from the

Kennedy Space Center, Florida with no loss of crew or payload.

The Saturn V was the largest operational launch vehicle ever produced. It was
the largest launch vehicle in the Saturn series.

 Standing over 363 feet high with its Apollo Spacecraft payload, it produced
over 7.5 million pounds of thrust at lift-off.
The Saturn V rocket emerged from the V2 rocket and jupiter series rocket.

Between 1960 and 1962, the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) designed a series
of Saturn rockets that could be used for various Earth orbit or lunar missions.

The C-1 was developed into the Saturn I, and the C-2 rocket was dropped early in
the design process in favor of the C-3, which was intended to use two F-1 engines on
its first stage, four J-2 engines for its second stage.

Then came the C-4 rocket, which used four F-1 engines on its first stage.

The C -5 was then designed which could use five F-1 engines and five J-2 engines in
the second stage. This was renamed as Saturn V.
The Apollo program was the United States spaceflight effort which landed the first
humans on Earth's Moon which used a Saturn V rocket.

This goal was first accomplished during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969
when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed, while Michael Collins
remained in lunar orbit.

Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in
December 1972.

In these six Apollo spaceflights, 12 men walked on the Moon. These are the only
times humans have landed on another celestial body.

The Saturn V carried all the Apollo lunar missions.