Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission when astronauts could admire their home planet as a small island of life hanging in the dark ...

One of the most enduring and powerful images from America's space program. Earthrise was taken on Christmas eve in 1968 by Astronaut William Anders, Lunar Module Pilot. It is a vintage print in suberb ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

Super Heavy's engines are capable of producing nearly 17 million pounds of thrust, twice the power of NASA's Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts toward the Moon. Super Heavy is perhaps the most ...

Rockets, including the Saturn V rocket, at the Marshall Space Flight Centre But Elon Musk’s cuts to the government spending have set pulses racing among the base’s 7,000 Nasa employees ...

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.

From the lawn of the NASA Causeway, enjoy an up-close view of the launch pads across Indian River, or watch from the comfort of the Apollo/Saturn V Center or main vistor complex. Whatever the ...

That rocket is twice as powerful as the Saturn V moon rocket, but Starship in eight test launches has yet to prove as dependable as the Saturn V, which was successful in all its 13 launches in the ...