Apollo 12 experienced an even more perilous ascent. Following launch in a rainstorm on 14 November 1969, lightning struck its Saturn V 36.5 and 52 seconds after liftoff.

Apollo 6, an unmanned mission that flew on a Saturn V rocket in April 1968, encountered numerous problems of its own: unexpected up-and-down shaking, dubbed the “pogo effect” shortly after ...

Apollo 6, the final unmanned test flight of the Saturn V rocket, ... The Mobile Service Structure approaches the Saturn V rocket on pad 39A before Apollo 11's launch in 1969.

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames ...

Nov. 14, 1969: Apollo 12 astronauts make second landing. Feb. 19, 1970: U.S.S.R. fails fourth attempt to launch a moon rocket. April 11, 1970: Apollo 13 moon mission ...

The three-stage rocket stood 363 feet (111 meters) tall — taller than the Statue of Liberty — and fully fuelled, it weighed about 6.2 million pounds (2.8 million kilograms).

Nov. 9: The first flight of a Saturn 5 rocket is successful. The Apollo 1 crew – Roger Chaffee, left, Ed White, center, and Gus Grissom – were killed in a launch pad fire that led to a ...

100: Percentage of cloud cover for the Apollo 12 launch On 14 November 1969, four months after landing on the Moon, Nasa planned to do it again. On board Apollo 12: Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and ...

A Saturn V also launched Apollo 13, but the spacecraft (not the rocket) had a problem and the astronauts didn't land. The last Saturn V was used to launch Skylab, America's first space station, on ...