Remembering Saturn V, the Rocket That Took Us to the Moon

First stage gets a lift

Also taken at Stennis in 1967, this image shows the Saturn V first stage being hoisted onto the B-2 test stand. The first stage ran on 203,400 gallons of kerosene and liquid oxygen, the latter enabling combustion.

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