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.

It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB ... the Saturn IB was ...

Here’s how it works. On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and Apollo spacecraft were ...

argued that NASA’s role in moon and Mars exploration should be leading and managing, as it did with the Saturn V and Apollo, and not merely renting rides on heavy-lift rockets created by vendors.

Megaprojects Saturn V: NASA’s Most Powerful Rocket Explained Posted: March 5, 2025 | Last updated: March 5, 2025 Why Has No Rocket Surpassed Saturn V? Despite advances in technology, no rocket ...

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

Just over a week after SpaceX's launchpad rocket failure ... 85 million pounds of thrust — about half as powerful as NASA's Saturn V launcher (and 30% less powerful than a Falcon Heavy).

A Saturn V rocket left over from the cancellation of the last three planned lunar Apollo missions would be used to place it into orbit. Alongside the lunar program, NASA had planned the Apollo ...

at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Floridia. 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 ...