The Saturn V was an engineering and technological marvel. Some of the challenges they had to overcome were daunting. They had do ensure each individual engine ignited within milliseconds or the vehicle would have heeled over. The engines were so powerful that it requirted so much reinforcement in the fuel tanks that they would have been too heavy to launch. It took tremendous engineering skill to construct a tank that could overcome the inertia of the enourmous fluid mass of fuel that was being virtually instantly accelerated. otherwise, the fuel would have torn right out of the tanks.
The Saturn V was the fastest vehicle in the world from a dead stop to 100,000 feet. It was only surpassed decades later by a US fighter jet stripped bare for the purpose. They looked slow coming off the pad, but once they got going, they hauled a$$. This is my favorite- the Saturn V was the second-loudest man-made noise ever generated. The first was the atomic bomb. It was so much louder than expected, it knocked the ceiling tiles out of the TV broadcast booth 4 miles away.
The Saturn V was the fastest vehicle in the world from a dead stop to 100,000 feet. It was only surpassed decades later by a US fighter jet stripped bare for the purpose. They looked slow coming off the pad, but once they got going, they hauled a$$. This is my favorite- the Saturn V was the second-loudest man-made noise ever generated. The first was the atomic bomb. It was so much louder than expected, it knocked the ceiling tiles out of the TV broadcast booth 4 miles away.
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