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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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.

A simple square building tall enough to house the Saturn V could turn into a box kite during a heavy storm. The architects and engineers eventually found solutions to these problems.

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.