After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space ...

On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final un-crewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated ... A few minutes after launch, oscillation in some of the rocket engines ...

The ninth Saturn ... of NASA’s moon rocket, the “V” variant won out. What became the Saturn grew out of a U.S. military requirement in the late 1950s for a booster big enough to launch ...

NASA - Saturn V Apollo Shake Test To shake the 25-story ... The test revealed a small weakness with the launch system rocket, ...

America's first space station, Skylab, helped pave the way for permanent operations in low-Earth orbit 52 years ago this year.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 bolted off the pad at 12:38 p.m. at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying 28 ...

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...

"Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly's mission design, fabrication, integration and test plans are all ...

NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing ...

There was the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) which was charged with steering the Saturn V ... Apollo Guidance System ended up at an electronics scrapper in 1975, by order of one of NASA ...

which manages the mission for NASA. The mission is expected to launch in 2028 to Titan, one of Saturn's moons. The Dragonfly mission has faced several delays and expense overruns. Dragonfly has a ...