On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA cancelled the production of its Saturn V rocket. The giant rocket was the only launch vehicle to have ever carried astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, and it was the largest, most ...

Fifty-five years ago Saturday, humanity made its first visit to the lunar surface with Apollo 11. Lifting off atop the gigantic Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission forever changed ...

The film chronicles the significant milestones in manned space flight from late 1961 to the end of 1962, highlighting the successful launch of the Saturn vehicle, the establishment of NASA's Office of ...

Before the Space Launch System rocket of the Artemis program and SpaceX's Starship got here, the Saturn V rocket used in the Apollo Moon exploration program was humanity's largest and most powerful ...

ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket will conduct a final, classified mission on Thursday after a notable 20-year career. The Saturn V rocket remains one of NASA's greatest technological achievements—a ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Fifty-three years ago today, on April 13, 1970, the Apollo 13 mission suffered a catastrophic failure when an oxygen tank exploded in one of the spacecraft’s service modules.

On November 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's taller than the Statue of Liberty! It was the biggest and most powerful ...

Jim Lovell, the naval aviator and mechanical engineer who is most famous for commanding the space mission Apollo 13 safely back to Earth after mechanical issues led to an aborted moon landing in 1970, ...

Famed astronaut Jim Lovell, best known his work on Gemini and Apollo missions, died on Aug. 7, NASA announced. Lovell, 97, died in Lake Forest, Illinois. He served as the command module pilot for the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Huntsville company competing to power NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket to Mars says the best engines for the job may be the same massive F-1 engines that lifted the Saturn V ...