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 ...

Having been at multiple space shuttle launches, they can’t compare with the Saturn V. Because of the sound, and the overall impression of what was happening. It was very dramatic. The shuttle ...

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It is the single largest element for NASA's Artemis II mission, which is slated to ferry a crew of astronauts around the far ...

With the Saturn V having been constructed inside the bays of the VAB, NASA had to get creative during the Space Shuttle program when it came to bringing the reusable shuttle into a vertical launch ...

At a glance, the rocket will have a classic profile, reminiscent of a launcher even older than the space shuttle: the Saturn V. Like Saturn, each SLS booster will fly just once, then be discarded.

It’s been a busy week in space news, and very little of it was good. We’ll start with the one winner of the week, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which landed successfully on the Moon’s ...

The B-2 position originally supported development and acceptance testing of Saturn V S-IC first stages in the mid to late 1960s. It was modified for Space Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Article ...

But why do NASA, the 45th Space Wing of the Space Force ... and Alan Bean’s Saturn V was struck twice by lightning in the first minute of flight. The strikes resulted in the failure of a ...

NASA's Space Shuttle successfully reached orbit during its first attempt in April 1981. The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969.