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The S-IVB was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, it had one J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for translunar injection (TLI).
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MS-IVB, Saturn S-IVB
diameter 6.6 metre, diameter 10.06 metre, mass 120798 kilogram, mass 11760 kilogram, mass 87401 kilogram, mass 29136 kilogram, mass 118002 kilogram, mass 11273 kilogram, height 17.87 metre, maximum thrust 230000 pound-force,
McDonnell Douglas, United States,
United States, Ashkenaz, Calvinist Republic of Ghent, Chinland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Havilah, Kingdom of Martabam-hongsawatoi, Kingdom of Wolaita, Persia, Sikh Confederacy, Tarshish, Dong Fang Hong 2, Ekran, Republic of Haiti,
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Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
A Saturn IB upper stage (S-IVB) being prepped for integration (NASA image). Alternate caption from https://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/MHR-5/part-8.htm: "S-IVB-206 at pad 37"
The powerful J-2 engine is prominent in this photograph of a Saturn V Third Stage (S-IVB) resting on a transporter in the Manufacturing Facility at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
A NASA technician is dwarfed by the gigantic Third Stage (S-IVB) as it rests on supports in a facility at KSC. The towering 363-foot Saturn V was a multi-stage, multi-engine launch vehicle standing taller than the Statue of Liberty.





