Saturn V rocket

Liquid hydrogen has been used as a fuel in the U.S. space program for many years. Hydrogen powered the Saturn V rocket that carried the first astronauts to the moon, and it fuels the rocket engines of the space shuttle (Figure 14.14a). 

Thirty-two launches of the Saturn V rocket system were conducted in the 1960 s and early 1970 s. All succeeded. 

The United States first space station, Skylab, was constructed from the third stage of a Saturn V rocket. 

Fig. 4.7 Saturn V rocket launch (Apollo 16 program) Helium is used for fuelling and pressurising liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks in space rockets.

Farber (Ref 31) points out that LP rocket destruct systems (specifically Saturn V) can initiate dangerous secondary explosions in the discharged fuel/oxidant mixture... 

Anyone who has visited the Kennedy Space Center and seen the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)—originally built to process the Saturn V and currently used to assemble the Space Shuttle and its external tanks and solid rocket boosters—and the crawler-transporter— used to move the final assembled vehicle and mobile launch platform from the VAB to the launch pad—has an appreciation for the massive infrastructure requirements of a major space project. The ISS program has benefited substantially from the existence of the Apollo-era... 

Alway, Peter (2000). In the Shadow of the V-2 15 Historical Rockets Derived from or Re- the V-2. Ann Arbor, MI Saturn Press. 

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