On 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's ...

As part of her personal collection she somehow acquired a Launch Vehicle Digital Computer board for a Saturn V rocket. This particular unit was never used. But it would have been had the Apollo ...

On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight ...

The Atomic Rocketeer — a new feature documentary co-directed by Larry L. Sheffield— tells the story of a German rocket ...

The Moon landing challenge immediately confronted NASA, however, with the need for a much bigger rocket. Early plans imagined a booster even larger than the Apollo Saturn V turned out to be.

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, said “building a new world on Mars is now possible” after Starship, the world's largest and most ...

The idea is to send the Ship part of the vehicle into low-Earth orbit, and “park” it there. It could then be refuelled in orbit by a SpaceX 'tanker' - essentially another Ship without the windows - ...

Early Sunday morning, SpaceX will try something no one has ever done before. If all goes according to plan, around seven minutes after lifting off from South Texas, the huge stainless steel booster ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but it will reach its annual opposition on September 7-8, 2024.

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...

Saturn V Was Loud but Didn't Melt Concrete Aug. 23, 2022 — Abundant internet claims about the acoustic power of the Saturn V suggest that it melted concrete and lit grass on fire over a mile ...

Kennedy Space Center press site (Credit: Rob Pegoraro) The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex offers the bonus of inspecting a leftover Saturn V rocket, suspended from the ceiling of this hangar ...