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This beautiful view of a fully stacked Saturn V was taken on May 25, 1967. NASA launched its Saturn V rocket on 13 occasions from 1967 to 1975: nine for the Apollo program (including the lone Apollo-Soyuz test project) and four for the Skylab space station project. Of these launches only one went poorly, the Apollo 6 flight on April 4, 1968; two of the rocket’s first-stage engines shut down prematurely, and the third-stage engine didn’t ignite after reaching orbit. Apollo 13 was another troubled mission, but that had nothing to do with Saturn V; the mission had to be aborted after the service module’s oxygen tank ruptured.
