What does the saturn v look like?

Nothing about the Saturn V is easy to grasp until you stand beside one. The complete vehicle with the Apollo spacecraft on top measured 110.6 m (363 ft), taller than the Statue of Liberty including its pedestal, and 10.1 m (33 ft) across at the base. Three restored examples are displayed horizontally, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama, and each stretches the length of a football field.

The first stage, the S-IC, is the widest section, painted white with black vertical stripes and a band of black around the interstage. Four large fins and four fairings house the swivelling outer F-1 engines, whose nozzles are visible below. Above it sits the S-II second stage, also 10.1 m wide, mostly white with black roll-pattern markings and the words UNITED STATES and the flag on its flank. A tapering interstage then narrows the vehicle to 6.6 m for the S-IVB third stage, which carries the same lettering. The black markings were not decorative: they helped tracking cameras determine the vehicle's roll angle during ascent.

Crowning the third stage is the Instrument Unit, a thin ring, then the tapered adapter that hid the lunar module, the cylindrical service module, the conical command module and finally the launch escape tower, a slender lattice with its own solid rocket, giving the whole a needle-like profile. On the pad the rocket stood beside a red launch umbilical tower taller than itself, with swing arms feeding propellant and power. At ignition, five F-1 engines produced a flame far brighter than the Florida sun and a sound that could be felt through the ground kilometres away.