To meet the challenge of putting a man on the Moon, the Apollo space program needed a rocket more powerful and advanced than any that had ever been seen before. The final result was the Saturn V ...

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

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.

"For the first time we can see the chemical cake while it's rising in the oven, instead of just the starting ingredients of ...

All in all, the Russians seemed poised to send a man to the moon. Russian ... a new manufacturer for rocket engines, and he found one in Nikolai Kuznetsov. In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid ...

Never do today what can be put off until tomorrow.’ ...

The Saturn IB was smaller than the Saturn V rocket, which carried men to the moon in the Apollo program, which is on display inside the rocket center. A rocket center report from 2022 described th ...

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 ...

Of the 274 moons orbiting Saturn, Titan is its largest and is roughly 759 million miles away from Earth. In some ways, Titan is the closest moon we know ... a Falcon Heavy rocket in July 2028 ...

Apollo 11, 12 and 14 astronauts collected soil and rock samples from a few acres around their lunar landers. Apollo 15, 16 and 17 astronauts covered 55 miles of lunar territory, collecting 600 ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Keck Observatory The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan ... a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in 2028, and reach ...