What became the Saturn grew out of a U.S. military requirement in the late 1950s for a booster big enough to launch large ... the escape rocket [at the top of the Saturn V, designed to propel ...

Notice how the last Saturn V that flew is missing the escape launch system at top. That's because it wasn't carrying humans but rather payloads for Skylab, the first space station. NASA has voiced ...

While commercial companies serve the International Space Station (upper left), NASA plans to use the heavy-lift Space Launch System for missions ... shuttle: the Saturn V. Like Saturn, each ...

The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969. Even NASA's ultra-expensive and expendable Space Launch System didn't erupt into a ...