Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Nonsense. The first three burns of an Apollo mission were to place everything in low Earth orbit. It could do that with - as I posted - a 310,000 pound payload.
https://space.stackexchange.com/ques...1-mission-need
No, but if it were safer and cheaper we sure would. It took ten years and 30 missions to build the ISS in low Earth orbit with the Russian Proton and Soyuz-U doing most of the heavy lifting. It could have been done by three Saturn V missions for a cost less than a single one of the 36 STS missions that eventually went to build or maintain the station.
The Saturn V was a rocket NASA built to send people to the moon. (The V in the name is the Roman numeral five.) The Saturn V was a type of rocket called a Heavy Lift Vehicle. That means it was very powerful. It was the most powerful rocket that had ever flown successfully. The Saturn V was used in the Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s. It also was used to launch the Skylab space station.
This is from the NASA website dude. It was built to go to the moon. Yeah, it was used a few times for LEO missions, but that was objectively NOT what it was designed for.