There is so much surface detail on the rocket, you can count the number of stringers (on the corrugated sections) and compare it to the real vehicle. You'll be able to immediately tell that this was a model build for scale enthusiasts like you. It will mesmerize you for hours on end as you slowly inspect every square centimeter of its surface. It will ignite your imagination as you dream about what it must have been like to have been an engineer working on it, or an astronaut to ride it into space.

When you are finished building the model, you will have a huge sense of accomplishment and a can-do attitude to tackle other complex rockets. If you can build this one, you can build any rocket kit!

The Apogee Saturn V is more than just space memorabilia. When you look at this new rocket, you'll be awe struck by its size, and commanding presence. Your eyes will be glued to it, like it has cast some sort of hypnotic trance on you. It demands your attention, like a Marine Drill Sargent barking in your face.

While being a Skill Level 5 kit, this rocket will not be difficult for you to build. The instructions are detailed, and easy to follow. Instead of a printed manual with complicated text and fuzzy illustrations, these instructions are video clips that you watch.

You just slip the instruction CD-ROM into your computer and turn the electronic pages with your mouse. Each page has a short movie that explains what is done in each assembly step, as well as how to perform the technique. Everyone that has watched the videos has commented that these are the best kit instructions ever made for a model rocket.

By following the techniques in the video instructions, your completed model will be a flawless work of art. People will marvel at the way you have the tube so smooth, and the paint applied with such crisp edges.

And besides building a museum-quality display model, your rocket can be launched in the sky! Yes, it was really designed to be blasted off into space.

I was a bit skeptical about the video instructions at first but after viewing a couple of segments, I am a convert. They do remove any doubt on how to properly build the kit as you have stated. I love the attention to detail the kit has." -- Vic Duniec

"I want to state publicly how pleased -- no, *thrilled* -- I am with the Saturn V kit. The level of detail is outstanding, the fit of parts is beautiful, and (my opinion) it isn't really as hard to build as some might think, thanks to a highly detailed and very clear set of video instructions." -- Terry "P'rfesser" McCreary

First, the anticipation of the launch will be so thick, you will almost be able to cut it with a knife. You will feel a bit of anxiety along with the thud-thud-thud of your heart pounding hard inside your chest. This is the big moment. Everything has led up to this. The weather is perfect. Not too hot, and only a whiff of a breeze.

You erect the vehicle on the launch pad. The sunlight gleams off it, and it is almost too bright to look at. While you hook up the igniter, from behind you hear the clicking of cameras taking numerous photos of the rocket. When your preparations are complete, you are asked to stand next to the rocket to have your photograph taken too. A big smile cracks across your face, because deep inside you know that people are envious of your masterpiece.

A calm silence falls over the crowd as the countdown begins. As it proceeds to 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, the spectators start shouting along with the countdown. At zero, you hear the thunderous grumbling of the motor as it comes up to full power.

Click, click, click go the cameras once again.

As the mighty rocket inches upward off the pad in clouds of billowing smoke, the brilliantly colored flame will make you squint your eyes. The smoke begins to blow toward you, and you smell the pungent aroma of the exhaust. By now the motor is making an ear-shattering roar, and the rocket is gaining immense speed as it rises perfectly straight into the crisp blue sky.

The wide column of smoke makes the rocket easy to track, and when the motor cuts off, you can hear the crowd whooping and howling. You should have charged them money to see this, you think to yourself.

The rocket begins to slow down about now, and is coasting effortlessly into the stratosphere. Just when it hits apogee, you see it split into two sections. A half-second later, as it starts to descend, the two big parachutes fully blossom open. One on the main part of the rocket, and the second on the forward section.

You feel a sense of unrestrained joyful emotions. You try hard to look calm, but deep inside you are brimming with pride.

"Yipee!" yells the crowd. They gradually make their way toward you as the rocket slowly descends. As you watch it drift down, you feel the hands slapping on your back and you hear the attaboys from your friends.

As the rocket sections finally touch down on the soft green grass, you feel a calm sense of awe. It was a great flight, and something you'll be proud of for a long, long time. You say to yourself, "that has got to be the next best thing to having watched a real moon-rocket lift off into space." But this was "MY" accomplishment.

If you've never experienced something like this, then you have to buy this rocket kit right now. Why wait? Click the "Add to Cart" button this very second.

• Molded plastic fins that are removable when you transport your rocket to and from the launch site.
• Urethane resin details for the booster interstage section
• Eye-poppingly detailed embossed wrap for the transition of the 2nd stage to the Service Module
• Special "raised ink" wrap for the Service Module portion to bring out the raised panel lines on the rocket, and to aid in masking off the different color patterns.
• Injection molded Reaction Control System (RCS) nozzles on the Service Module.
• Four hours of video instruction. These not only show where to place the parts, but how-to put them together correctly. This gives a high quality fit and lightweight rocket.
• 12 pages of painting instructions and drawings show the colors on the rocket.
• Kevlar^® shock cords
• 1/4 inch launch lugs
• RockSim design file so you can pick which motors you'd like to fly, and to determine how well the rocket will perform with those motors.
• This is a rocket kit that was truly engineered -- not simply whipped together and tossed into a box. Like all the Apogee rocket kits, it was designed by a real engineer using true aeronautical principles. It is strong enough to fly on big high-power rocket motors, but is still light weight. In fact, when prepped for flight, this rocket is only 2-1/2 lbs, so you do not need a FAA waiver to launch it! It flies great on an Aerotech G80-4 rocket motor - which you can purchase at your local hobby store. No high power certification or special rocket motors are required.

This project started in late 2000, and took 1-1/2 years to complete. It has taken us that long to make sure that you'll be receive the best-quality Saturn V rocket ever created. Click here to see how this kit progressed during the development phase of the project.

To see how the Apogee Saturn V Moon Rocket rocket looks and performs with each motor configuration, download the FREE demo version of RockSim (click here). This kit is included as one of the sample designs that comes with the demo software. Both Windows and Macintosh versions are available.

Are you new to rocketry? Do you think you know what happens when you launch your rocket? Now you can learn about the events that occur as your rocket is launched into the air. So when you launch your rocket, you'll be prepared and you'll be able to show off your knowledge to observers watching your rocket. This article also gives you links to other references that will give you even more background information about rocketry, so you can become a true rocket scientist and expert.

Congratulations Tim!!!

Thanks for following through and reaching this milestone in a very monumental project, It really is a priveledge to be even a small part in what I suspect will be considered a historic effort in model rocketry kits.

Thanks again for your vision, courage, and perserverance to do something special in model rocketry and continued success to Apogee. -- Craig Cline