5 Cool Facts about the Saturn V

This holiday season, Space Center Houston launched a new holiday tradition presented by Reliant called Galaxy Lights. As part of this holiday extravaganza, VISION created a 3D Projection Mapping Show brought to life on the side of the Saturn V Rocket at Rocket Park. Besides being the first 3D projection mapping surface to have ever been to space, here are some other interesting facts that make the Saturn V rocket the coolest projection mapping surface ever.

The Saturn V stands at a whopping 363-feet-tall.

The Saturn V is the tallest rocket ever built, standing at a whopping 363-feet-tall. That’s about the height of a 36-story-tall building. The Saturn V Rocket is about 60 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.

The Saturn V successfully launched 13 times.

First launched in 1967 for the Apollo 4 mission, the Saturn V rocket successfully launched twelve missions for Apollo and one to place the Skylab space station in orbit—not once losing any crew or cargo during flight.

The Saturn V took 24 men to the moon.

To date, the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit and to the moon. In its 6 years of use, the Saturn V has taken a total of 24 men to the moon (three of them twice), including NASA legends Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin.

At launch, the Saturn V weighed a massive 6.2 million pounds.

Fully fueled, the Saturn V rocket weighed in at a massive 6.2 million pounds, which consisted mostly of fuel. This weight is the equivalent of 400 large elephants.

The last Saturn V was launched in 1973.

The last mission to use the Saturn V rocket was in 1973 which was an unmanned mission that launched the Skylab space station into orbit. Since the Saturn V rocket’s last manned mission in 1972, Apollo 17, human space travel has been confined to simply orbiting the earth.

Over 50 years since its first launch in 1967, the Saturn V remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket to ever successfully reach orbit. Check out the Saturn V rocket in all its glory as the surface for VISION’s 3D Projection Mapping holiday show at Space Center Houston’s Galaxy Lights presented by Reliant.