It's from this giant building that the Saturn V rocket rose up and into history.An ambitious post-Apollo program was imagined — one that would have seen the Saturn V fly well beyond the last ...

The giant, aged rocket rests on its side on the grounds of the Marshall Space Flight Center, a neglected and nearly forgotten symbol of a bygone era. Its once-shiny surface is spattered with rust a… ...

The ninth Saturn V lifts off in January 1971 to start the Apollo 14 mission. ... First flight of the Saturn V, November 9, 1967. “Our building’s shaking!” reported Walter Cronkite, ...

In May 1966, an Apollo/Saturn V facilities Test Vehicle and Launch Umbilical Tower atop a crawler-transporter drove from the Vehicle Assembly Building on the way to Pad A. NASA ...

The Saturn V first launched on Nov. 8, 1967, carrying the uncrewed Apollo 4 mission. For a few magic years in the 1960s and 1970s, a powerful rocket hefted humans towards the moon.

The Saturn V weighed a staggering 6.2 million pounds — about equivalent to a herd of 400 elephants — when fully fueled, with the first stage alone holding 203,400 gallons (770,000 liters) of ...

Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the ...

How Houston's Saturn V rocket looks today; the building housing it was constrained by NASA's limited budget. (Image credit: Smithsonian) "It's not that the building needs to draw attention to ...

The Saturn V building also contains a moving tribute to the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, the Apollo I astronauts lost in a tragic fire that swept through their capsule during ...

The Saturn V with its three stages in place, tops out at 363 ft (110.6 m) tall, has a diameter of 33 ft (10.1 m), and tips the scales at 6,540,000 lb (2,970,000 kg). Of course, size isn't everything.

The Saturn V, still the most powerful rocket to ever fly, ... The SLS will cost an estimated $4.1 billion per launch, but the cost of developing and building the SLS so far is around $23 billion.