The Saturn V is still the largest and most powerful manned rocket to this day. It made the flights to the Moon possible in the first place. The engines and almost all components were technical innovations and had never been built at this scale before. The mastermind behind the successful design was none other than the German Wernher von Braun. The thrilling story of this development, leading up to the successful Moon missions and the final Skylab missions, is expertly and engagingly described in this book.