Humans had to aim high to reach the moon, but the Saturn V rocket was like nothing anyone has seen before or since.

November 9, 1967, T-minus 8.9 seconds: Thousands of gallons of kerosene and liquid oxygen begin coursing through the giant center F1 rocket engine: The Saturn V’s ignition sequence has begun ...

The rocket that launched the first astronauts to the moon will blast off from the back of a new dollar coin in 2024. NASA's Saturn V will be featured on Alabama's American Innovation $1 Coin.

NASA's Saturn V moon rocket was an engineering wonder, mankind's most powerful, audacious machine. But when Paul Thomarios saw Kennedy Space Center's surviving Saturn V up close in 1995, it looked ...

The largest and most powerful rocket to successfully lift off was the Saturn V, which flew men and equipment to the Moon as part of Project Apollo in the 1960s and 1970s.

As soon as the morning of 29 August, the largest rocket to ever fly will lift off from Nasa’s launch complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The Artemis I mission, the first flight of ...

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 ...

A large image of the Saturn V rocket shone Tuesday evening on the Washington Monument as part of a week-long series of events in Washington to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 ...

At one point a four-engine version, the Saturn IV, had been considered, but in the complicated tradeoffs that led to the final design of NASA’s moon rocket, the “V” variant won out.

Subsequent flights’ payloads were too heavy for this smaller rocket, so every mission after Apollo 7 used the Saturn V by necessity. The Saturn IB’s utility extended beyond the Apollo program.