A Saturn V rocket launches from Pad 39A on the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. NASA The first astronauts to launch from LC-39A were the Apollo 8 crew, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders ...

Following the historic year of 1969 that saw two successful Moon landings, 1970 opened on a more sober note. Ever-tightening ...

The Apollo Saturn V's Instrument Unit serves as the brain of the launch vehicle, measuring 22 feet in diameter and 3 feet ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is ... Standing at more than 100m (363ft), the Saturn V rocket burned some 20 tonnes of fuel a second at launch. Propellant accounted for 85% of its ...

With the historic first international space docking mission only six months away, preparations on the ground for the ...

On the day of launch, Apollo 11 will have a multi-hour launch window, allowing for a potential recycle of the Saturn V countdown to realign the launch time for later in the day and allow launch ...

The US was still riven with conflict and protest. The final Apollo mission was the first night launch of the powerful Saturn V rocket. As if mirroring the 10 years of the Apollo era in a few short ...

With the historic first international space docking mission only six months away, preparations on the ground for the ...

Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper.

The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology ... sending a spacecraft 250,000 miles to reach the Moon. As of 2024, the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle to carry people outside of ...

SpaceX is preparing for a groundbreaking Starship test flight, aiming to deploy 10 model Starlink satellites in space. This ...

On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a ...