Humans had to aim high to reach the moon, but the Saturn V rocket was like nothing anyone has seen before or since.

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

Once the most voluminous building in the world, the VAB was previously used to stack the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and the space shuttles that flew for 30 years. The launch vehicle stage adapter ...

The Rocket Garden displays real rockets and mock-ups of older rockets Shutterstock Following a helpful tip, we quickly moved through these initial exhibits and caught a shuttle to the Apollo/Saturn V ...

At a glance, the rocket will have a classic profile, reminiscent of a launcher even older than the space shuttle: the Saturn V. Like Saturn, each SLS booster will fly just once, then be discarded.

Super Heavy's engines are capable of producing nearly 17 million pounds of thrust, twice the power of NASA's Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts toward the Moon. Super Heavy is perhaps the most ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Monday, March 24, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape ... tourist attraction: Apollo/Saturn V Center (about 6.2 miles from ...

That technology found its way into aerospace, and within ten years, it was controlling the rocket motors on the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo missions.” Having grown astronomically in its early days, ...

This year, up to 20 launches could take off from Florida’s Space Coast First, a quiet settles over the crowd. Thousands wait, hushed, until finally the words ring out over the loud speaker ...

The 39-meter (128 ft) tall pedestal allowed the smaller Saturn IB rocket to use the same facilities on the mobile launcher as the larger Saturn V. The rocket itself comprised a Saturn IB first stage ...

In 1960, von Braun became both the director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre and the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket. The very same technology that had been used in the V-2 rockets was ...