Designed under the technical leadership of Wernher von Braun at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Saturn V (~7.5 million lbf at liftoff) was the most powerful rocket of the Apollo era; SLS Block 1 (~8.8 million lbf) has since exceeded it. Standing 363 feet tall — 60 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty — and weighing 6.2 million pounds at liftoff, the three-stage rocket generated 7.5 million pounds of thrust from its five F-1 first-stage engines, more power than 85 Hoover Dams. Built by Boeing (S-IC first stage), North American Aviation (S-II second stage), and Douglas Aircraft Company (S-IVB third stage), with engines by Rocketdyne, the Saturn V was purpose-built for Apollo. Of 13 launches, 12 were complete successes; the single partial failure, Apollo 6, provided data that corrected vibration issues before the first crewed flight. The Saturn V launched every Apollo lunar mission, carried the Skylab space station into orbit in 1973, and demonstrated that American engineering could meet President Kennedy’s challenge. No rocket of comparable payload capacity has flown since.