The “V” stood for the five giant F-1 rocket engines—still the most powerful ever built—clustered at the bottom of the Saturn V’s first stage. At one point a four-engine version ...

As part of her personal collection she somehow acquired a Launch Vehicle Digital Computer board for a Saturn V rocket. This particular unit was never used. But it would have been had the Apollo ...

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 ...

Because of this, he sought a new manufacturer for rocket engines, and he found one in Nikolai Kuznetsov. In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel are pumped separately into the ...

On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight ...

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 ...

Student engineers from Dow High School presented their biomedical innovations at the NASA HUNCH Final Design Review.

With an upper stage and payload atop its core, the new moon rocket will stand 322 feet tall. That’s 41 feet shorter than Apollo’s Saturn V, but on the launchpad, the SLS will produce 15 ...

These four images show craters formed by impacts of the Apollo S-IVB stages — the third stages of the Saturn V rockets that took six crews of astronauts to the moon. Crater diameters range from ...

Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin pose in front of 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 at the ...

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