Collection

Saturn V rocket photographs, framed

The Saturn V stood 363 feet tall on the pad, the rocket Wernher von Braun's team at Marshall Space Flight Center built to send Apollo to the Moon. It first flew, without a crew, as Apollo 4 in November 1967, carried Apollo 8 around the Moon in December 1968, and launched every Moon landing from Apollo 11 in July 1969 to Apollo 17 in December 1972.

These are NASA's own photographs: launches seen across the marsh and the lagoon and from a chase plane, rockets crawling out to Launch Complex 39 on the crawler-transporter, the view down from the Vehicle Assembly Building, and von Braun standing under the five F-1 engines.

A Saturn V is tall and narrow, so most of these are portrait prints. Each one is printed at its true shape, nothing cropped or stretched, and arrives framed and ready to hang. The largest files hold up at 36 inches on the long side, a museum-scale picture for a hallway, an office or a space fan's wall.

22 works in this collection, dated 1967 to 1972. Most represented: NASA (21). Sources include NASA Image and Video Library, NASA, and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.