Yes, the Range Safety Officer could send a coded command to "terminate the flight of an erratic vehicle" by cutting off the engine and "dispersing the propellan

Yes, the Range Safety Officer could send a coded command to "terminate the flight of an erratic vehicle" by cutting off the engine and "dispersing the propellant". Each of the three stages in the Saturn V rocket had linear shaped charges to blow up the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks. [1] The astronauts would hopefully be pulled to safety by the launch escape system, the rocket engine on the top of the capsule. [1] See https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap10fj/pdf/19700015780_as-505-a10-saturn-v-technical-info-summary.pdf https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap10fj/pdf/19700015780_as-505-a... pages 14-15.