Before NASA decided to launch Apollo on the Saturn V rocket, ... (Earth Orbit Rendezvous mode), the larger, more complicated Nova design was pushed to the back burner.

In fact, the initial design of NASA's Space Launch System ... both carried by Saturn V rockets. Apollo 9 would see the crew test the Apollo moon lander by flying it in Earth orbit without landing.

A Virginia-based propulsion-focused company conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Booster Obsolescence and ...

Apollo, Gemini and Mercury flew into space on liquid rockets, and liquids fuel most of the world's unmanned commercial rockets. Russia's Soyuz rocket is liquid fueled too.

A rocket engine that was built to launch the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern landscape. The engine, known to NASA engineers as ...

After the Apollo 1 fire, a tragedy that killed three astronauts in 1967, NASA changed its thinking about space capsule design and safety forever.

On Wednesday NASA announced the design for its next-generation rocket, a potentially $35 billion vehicle called the Space Launch System (SLS) that the space agency believes can replace the space ...

Fifty years ago - on July 16, 1969 - the Apollo 11 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center. The launch and the moon landing a few days later marked the highpoint of the Space Age. That was a time ...

No Apollo Saturn rocket ever failed, but NASA and its contractors always planned for the worst. ... A design flaw caused Skylab's meteoroid shield to tear loose 63 seconds into the flight.

Ford has created a one-of-a-kind Mustang modeled after NASA's Saturn V Apollo rocket, to be auctioned in late July. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled ...