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

By fully fueling the Apollo 11 rocket, NASA’s launch team ... allowing for a potential recycle of the Saturn V countdown to realign the launch time for later in the day and allow launch teams ...

The ninth Saturn V lifts off in January 1971 to start the Apollo ... enough to launch large satellites. Wernher von Braun, who had dreamed as a young engineer in Germany of a rocket capable ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo ... their Saturn V rocket on May 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong, front, waves as the crew heads to the van that will take them to the rocket for launch ...

A look back at Apollo 11: Florida Today coverage ... While not quite as tall as the Saturn V, it is significantly more powerful. Upon launch, the SLS rocket gives off 8.8 million pounds of thrust.

With Apollo 11’s successful landing ... Skylab’s launch would mark the thirteenth and final flight of the legendary Saturn V rocket, which had powered previous Apollo missions on their ...

A giant Saturn V rocket will fire Apollo 11 and her crew into space ... The rocket generates 34.5 million newtons of thrust at launch. That’s more power than 85 Hoover Dams.

lift-off on Apollo 11… Tower cleared… She's lifting beautifully into the sky, a typically beautiful Saturn V launch. 16 July 1969. Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...