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The Apollo-Saturn Exhibition Center . . .
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In the era of the Apollo Moon Program, the Saturn-5 rocket
vehicle- perhaps the most complex and sophisticated machine ever built by man, was what it took to fly the first
men to the moon. I was just barely in the high school when the Apollo Program commenced in the late1960s and never thought
that one day I'd be visiting the very place where it all happened- and see for myself the actual, enormously large Saturn-5
rocket- now lying in state as mute witness to human achievement in space science and engineering.
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The Saturn-5 Rocket . . .
In the era of the Apollo Moon Program, the Saturn-5 rocket
vehicle- perhaps the most complex and sophisticated machine ever built by man, was what it took to fly the first
men to the moon. I was just barely in the high school when the Apollo Program commenced in the late1960s and never thought
that one day I'd be visiting the very place where it all happened- and see for myself the actual, enormously large Saturn-5
rocket- now lying in state as mute witness to human achievement in space science and engineering.
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The Tour of Kennedy Space Center would not be complete without
visiting the Apollo Center where one finds a complete- full-scale replica of the giant Saturn-5 Rocket, including
the Command Module (CM).
The Command Module (top/left) and the 5 giant
boosters of the Saturn-5 F-1 engines, each of which can deliver some 1.5-million pounds of thrust.
The entire length of the Saturn-5 first stage (above).
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Apollo 11 : First Men on The Moon . . .
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