The Saturn V rocket on display at Kennedy Space Center, here showing the junction between the S-IC stage to the left and the S-II stage to the right. During a launch, these two stages would separate at a height of 67 km and a speed of 2390 meters/second. Having burned thousands of tons of kerosene and oxygen and dropped the enormous fuel tank and rocket engines, the still-climbing launch vehicle would have lost 75% of its original mass.
