Saturn V Rocket Project

Saturn V launch

Saturn V Model Rocket Project

1:48 Scale Saturn V – scratch build
and
1:25 Scale (14 foot tall) Saturn V – scratch build

Sport Rocketry magazine — Click image to open Sport Rocketry magazine article.

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Photo supplied by JonRocket.com

SoAR Rocket Club — Click to visit SoAR Rocket Club

Nov 2013 – Arial video supplied by Roger Smith – JonRocket.com

Georgia Rockets In The Sky — Nov. 2016

Winds would not allow full tower – April 2011

setting up Saturn V for launch — Setting up Nov. 2016 launch

1:25 Scale
(5) motor cluster
1 – center K700 motor
2 – H125 motors
2 – I211 motors
1 – 10′ parachute upper
1 – 15′ parachute lower
Total weight – 58 lbs

Tellus Science Museum with Al Worden - Apollo 15 CMP — Photo with Al Warden –
Apollo 15 CMP

setting up at Commerce Dragway — 3rd Launch 2013

setting up for 1st launch 2013 — First Launch 2011

Nov 2024 Launch — 6th Launch Nov. 2024

1:48 Scale – December 2010

showing 1/25 scale and 1/48 scale — !:25 Scale and 1:48 Scale

Nov. 2024 launch with new tower — Nov 2024 launch with new tower

launch of 1/48 scale Saturn V — 1:48 Scale Launch 2010

setting up 1/48 scale launch — Thanks to Michael Burke for use of his drawings of the Launch Umbilical Tower

Saturn V CSM — Details of Command Module

showing construction — Construction of 1:48 Scale

Stage 1

showing lower section

showing launch pad — Launch Platform of 1:48 Scale

showing launch pad — showing Launch Platform

showing Fin/Faring construction — Fins/Fairings before painting
Many thanks to John Pursley for his invaluable
help with the fairings.

showing parachute chamber — Showing inside of parachute chamber of 1:48 scale

showing motor tubs at bottom of rocket — Showing 5 motor cluster of 1:48 scale

showing construction plans — Drawings of 1:25 Scale

showing construction plans — Drawing of 1:25 Scale

IS IS ROCKET SCIENCE – by Monica Helms (SoAR member)