The story of the Saturn rocket is the story of rocket development, started in Germany, and lasting through World War-II. It was then continued both in the United States and the then-Soviet Union by members from the German teams. The driver was now not war, but political and world prestige. The story of the Saturn-V moon rocket starts with the V-2 missile development and continues through the Redstone, Jupiter, and the Saturn-1 rockets. The Saturn-1/Pegasus missions taught us a lot about the near-Earth micrometeorite environment, and confirmed the feasibility of the lunar missions.