At one point a four-engine version, the Saturn IV, had been considered, but in the complicated tradeoffs that led to the final design of NASA’s moon rocket, the “V” variant won out.

SpaceX has now launched eight full-scale test flights of Starship, with a Super Heavy booster and Starship's upper stage ...

All in all, the Russians seemed poised to send a man to the moon. Russian ... a new manufacturer for rocket engines, and he found one in Nikolai Kuznetsov. In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission.

pose with a model of the moon in 1969. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin pose in front of their Saturn V rocket on May 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong, front, waves as the crew heads to the van that will ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

Inside the Davidson Center, the Saturn V moon rocket's immense size is on view for all to see. The INTUITIVE Planetarium offers daily programming under its 8K dome, while the National Geographic ...

One of the most enduring and powerful images from America's space program. Earthrise was taken on Christmas eve in 1968 by Astronaut William Anders, Lunar Module Pilot. It is a vintage print in suberb ...

and a J-2 rocket engine like the type that powered the upper stages of the Apollo Saturn V moon rocket. Space artifacts elsewhere in the museum include a full-size telecommunications satellite ...