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I live in north Houston area, and take visitors to NASA mainly to see the Saturn V display. Even by today’s standards, it is an amazing display of engineering mastery! Truly an incredible accomplishment.

[GingisK]

The Saturn V is still the most powerful machine built by man. It you don't know this already, consider that if the F1 stage could be laid horizontally on wheels on a railroad track, it could out push 2,200 diesel-electric locomotives!

The Apollo Program is so very important, and the achievements are flabbergasting.

[Honorary Serb]

And they did it all with computers that were primitive by today’s standards!!!! (And some—but by no means all—of their “computers” were women, not machines!!!!)

https://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/Human_Computers

[kosciusko51]

I live in north Houston area, and take visitors to NASA mainly to see the Saturn V display

I do the same with my visitors here in the Huntsville, AL area. The Space and Rocket Center has an vertical Saturn V outside, and a horizontal one inside.

[Rockingham]

I grew up in the Orlando area, which was close enough to see the manned boosters climbing upwards when launched. For Mercury and Gemini, one saw a bright point on a column of smoke, but the Saturn V was large enough that even in Orlando, one could see the rocket itself on launch and could even see the first stage detach dozens of miles downrange.

Astonishingly, NASA originally planned on even larger boosters, with competing designs known as Nova and the Saturn C-8 that were to be capable of supporting a direct landing on the Moon. The most likely designs had eight F-1 engines in the first stage, as compared to the five in the Saturn V. NASA dropped development of such models though after recognizing the advantages of Lunar Orbit Rendevous, which made it possible to use the smaller Saturn V. This likely shaved a couple of years or more off the schedule for the Apollo landing.