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The Saturn V rocket was built by a team of companies, including Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM:
Boeing Built the first stage
North American Aviation Built the second stage
McDonnell Douglas/IBM Built the third stage
Rocketdyne Provided 33 of the engines
The command and service module was developed and
built for NASA by North American Aviation
Grumman build the lunar landing module
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and hundreds if not thousands of other smaller
companies contributed to the construction.
NASA issued contracts to private corporations
who in turn built the stuff.
But it isn't easy cutting all those checks
SpaceX designs and builds their own rockets.
In-house.