It was named after the flight commander's cat.
Apollo is the name of the NASA program whose mission was to send men to the moon. The rocket used to launch the Apollo crewmembers into space was called the Saturn V.
The rocket that was used for Apollo 11 was the Saturn five rocket.
The rocket that took humans to the moon was called Saturn V. It was used by NASA's Apollo program for the lunar missions in the 1960s and 1970s.
What was the name of the rocket used to travel to the moon?
The name of the rocket was the "Saturn V" It was a 3 stage rocket
An Apollo rocket is, most likely, a colloquial reference to the Saturn V rocket used by NASA during the Apollo program to the Moon. For more information on the Saturn V rocket, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V
No, the Apollo Saturn V rocket was the launch vehicle used in the Apollo program by NASA to send astronauts to the Moon. Apollo 13 was the name of a specific mission within the Apollo program that experienced an in-flight emergency while en route to the Moon.
Apollo 11 used the Saturn V rocket to launch into space. The Saturn V was a three-stage rocket developed specifically for the Apollo program by NASA. It remains the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.
The type of rocket that launced Apollo 11 into space is the same type of rocket that was used for all Apollo launchings. The Saturn V (five) multistage rocket was used.
The Apollo Command Module and Lunar Landing Module were launched using a Saturn V rocket
NASA did not build the aircraft for the Apollo missions. Instead, NASA used rockets and spacecraft to send astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. The Apollo 16 mission used a Saturn V rocket to launch the spacecraft carrying the astronauts.
The rocket wasn't called "Apollo". The specific NASA project to put a man on the moon was called "The Apollo Project" - Armstrong did not name it, it was called that before he got involved with it. He did have the privilege of naming the lunar landing vehicle, though, which was called "Eagle".