The Second Stage Also Had Five Engines Once the Saturn V's first stage finished its operation and was discarded, the second stage took over. This stage used a combination of liquid hydrogen and ...

Nine minutes after launch, the second stage dropped off the rocket at an altitude of 109 miles above the Earth’s surface. Now in orbit, the Saturn V was only 58 feet long. This final stage used ...

The Saturn V weighed six million pounds and stood 363 ... stage flight as in the Saturn I program, then adding a live second stage only after the first stage had proven its flightworthiness ...

Severe oscillations — astronauts called it “pogo” — cause the center engine of the Saturn V second stage to shut down early. Still, Apollo 13 — carrying astronauts Jim Lovell ...