The 200-foot-tall Saturn IB flew five times with astronauts on board (Apollo 7, Skylab missions 2, 3 ... hole in the interstage adapter that linked the OWS to the S-II second stage and apparently ...

It was the Apollo-Saturn 500F. This rocket was white with black stripes rising about a third of the way up the first stage and continued on the upper part of the stage and onto the aft interstage ...

A few seconds after the second stage’s five rocket engines are ignited, an interstage skirt ... a half hours later, the third stage engine is restarted to send the Apollo spacecraft out of ...

The third stage placed the Apollo spacecraft into Earth orbit and pushed it toward the moon. The first two stages fell into the ocean after separation, while the third stage either stayed in space ...

"We made the third stage of the three-stage vehicle and that's the stage that took astronauts from earth orbit all the way to the moon — 240,000 miles." Click here to see pictures of the Apollo ...

Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch. Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo ...