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.

And although this particular Rocketdyne F-1 engine never left Earth, it helped make possible the Saturn V launch that would carry astronauts to the moon ... up at the rocket from the launch ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

and a J-2 rocket engine like the type that powered the upper stages of the Apollo Saturn V moon rocket. From April 23 until June 2, visitors will still able to view examples of space food and a ...

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 ...