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. The engine, donated by Rocketdyne to the ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for ... a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth” before the end of the decade began rolling out to Launch Complex 39A at the ...

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.

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 ...

It is the single largest element for NASA's Artemis II mission, which is slated to ferry a crew of astronauts around the far ...

The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969. Even NASA's ultra-expensive and expendable Space Launch System didn't erupt into a ...

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

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 ...

Artemis II, due to launch in 2026, will take four astronauts ... advances since Apollo 11 astronauts went to the moon on a single Saturn V rocket, do 21st-century astronauts have to essentially ...