Since the last Saturn V rocket in 1973 mankind has not had any vehicle as powerful. Even without the retirement of the shuttle, we would not have human transportation capable of taking us as far as we did in the 60s.
The Saturn V, developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center under the direction of Wernher von Braun, was the largest in a family of liquid-propellant rockets that solved the problem of getting to the Moon. A total of thirty-two Saturns of all types were launched, not one failed.
The Saturn V was flight-tested twice without a crew. The first manned Saturn V sent the Apollo 8 astronauts into orbit around the Moon in December 1968. After two more missions to test the lunar landing vehicle, in July 1969 a Saturn V launched the crew of Apollo 11 to the first manned landing on the Moon.
Below is collections of rare pictures of Saturn V
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