The rocket that carried humanity to the Moon was extremely loud, but didn't reach enough acoustic power to start fires or melt the pavement.

The greater the decibels, the more damaging the sound. Up close, just after lift-off, the Saturn V rocket cranked out 220 decibels of sound, declining to about 205 decibels one thousand feet away from ...

The Saturn V moon rocket launched in 1967 as part of the Apollo 4 mission. Photo: NASA On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

Abundant internet claims about the acoustic power of the Saturn V suggest that it melted concrete and lit grass on fire over a mile away, but such ideas are undeniably false. Researchers used a ...

New research debunks the myth that Saturn V, a 1960s NASA-made rocket that carried man to the moon, was loud enough to melt concrete and set fire to grass – although it was very loud, the study ...

For all those out there keeping score when it comes to NASA Apollo-era gossip: Yes, the moon landing did happen, but no, the Saturn V rocket wasn't so loud that it melted concrete, and those sound ...

After a few seconds, the sound coalesces into a roar, like a massive welding torch." Last year, a team of scientists from Brigham Young University in Utah calculated just how loud Saturn V was.

The Saturn V is the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket humans have ever built. In 13 missions, it took 24 astronauts beyond earth's orbit, ...

The creation of the Saturn V Rocket -- the greatest machine ever built -- required not just technical prowess but radical supply chain innovation.

Abundant internet claims about the acoustic power of the Saturn V suggest that it melted concrete and lit grass on fire over a mile away, but such ideas are undeniably false. In The Journal of the ...