: a rocket used to launch a satellite or spacecraft
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In one of these documents, Buzz Aldrin recounts seeing what might have been a piece of a Saturn V launch vehicle, the NASA rocket that helped loft the Apollo missions into space.—Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 8 May 2026 Authored by Buzz Aldrin, the observations highlighted in the document – all made during the crew's return trip to Earth – include an object on the way toward the moon that the astronauts speculated may have been the Saturn V launch vehicle.—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 8 May 2026 SpaceX may be looking beyond the world’s most successful rocket to build a much more powerful launch vehicle.—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 May 2026 CycloRP focuses on launch vehicles and reusable rocket systems.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for launch vehicle