Saturn V

Events

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  20 November 1998

  International Space Station

  • Proton, Soyuz, Space Shuttle

  The station is still in operation. Modules were built in Russia, the US and Europe, and the project grew out of a post-Cold War partnership. It is now due to be deorbited, with SpaceX named as the vehicle operator around 2030 in one video.

  2 videos

  • DDDW Documentary
  • CDCurious Droid
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  11 April 1970

  Apollo 13

  • Apollo spacecraft, Saturn V
  • Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise

  Apollo 13 was meant to be the third landing on the Moon, in the Fra Mauro highlands. After the rupture it became a rescue, worked out in real time by the crew and the flight controllers in Houston. The crew never landed, and every one of them came home.

  17 videos

  • RMRoberto Mastri
  • RMRearview Mirror Media
  • HDHomemade Documentaries
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  16 July 1969

  Apollo 11

  • Apollo spacecraft, Saturn V
  • Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins

  Apollo 11 was NASA's first attempt to land people on the Moon, and it worked. The Saturn V that launched it, the lunar module that landed and the command module that came home were the full stack of the Apollo programme, flown by a crew of three.

  4 videos

  • VVox
  • PSPrimal Space
  • PSProgress – Science Documentaries
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  Apollo 16

  • Apollo spacecraft, Saturn V
  • John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke
  1 video

  • EAEveryday Astronaut
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  Skylab

  • Apollo spacecraft, Saturn V

  Skylab was a Saturn V third stage turned into a house. Sixty-three seconds after liftoff the thin shield that was meant to protect it from meteoroids and sunlight tore away, taking one of its two solar arrays with it.

  8 videos

  • THThe History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
  • RSRetro Space HD
  • HPHubbell Power Systems