Saturn V leaves the Vehicle Assembly Building and is rolled out to the Launch Complex in 1969.
NASA
NASA built the Saturn V rocket to take humanity farther than we’d ever gone before: the Moon. But as impressive as the Saturn V was, its power has been overblown in a certain internet rumor that turns out to be more fiction than fact.
In addition to its long list of accomplishments, it’s been claimed that Saturn V was so loud that it managed to melt concrete and set grass on fire. But this rumor has officially been put to rest in a new paper published Aug. 23 in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA).
Most powerful rocket ever
It’s not hard to imagine where this falsehood came from; Saturn V was the most powerful rocket ever successfully launched into orbit. And its list of accomplishments is pretty legendary.
