The most lifting, powerful, super-heavy and largest Saturn-5 launch vehicle on earth was created in the mid-1960s in the USA. This ingenious creation of Werner von Braun allowed people to open the way to the moon. But the Earth satellite has become only the first target of the American space program. In the future, with the help of this rocket, it was supposed to master the near-earth orbit, explore the moon, launch ships to other planets. So is it true that 12 American astronauts left their marks in the lunar dust? And can the American Apollo program be considered the grandest and most successful engineering event of the twentieth century? But why then did this megaproject have to be abandoned, and Saturn-5 went down in history? You will find answers to these and other questions in the new book of the leading cosmonautics historian, as well as learn amazing facts from the history of space exploration: about the creation of Saturn-5, the predecessors of the giant rocket, its flight fate, about lunar expeditions that were supposed to fulfill the eternal dream of mankind - interplanetary flights.