We went to NASA (Johnson Space Center) recently (first time for me and the kids), and the last stop is Rocket Park where they take you into the building the Saturn V rocket is laying down in. Cool thing is it's not a mockup, it was the rocket that would have been Apollo 18 had that mission happened.
Anyway... IT'S FREAKIN HUGE!!! It's taller than the Statue of Liberty!! UN-believable. They shot that thing into space?!
Very much worth the trip to see it. Here are some pics which will utterly fail to really convey the size of this thing...
This is a shot of the first two stages (there's another almost half of the rocket to the left, not in the shot):
Stage 1 and the main engines:
Just one of the main engines:
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