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SpaceX's Latest Starship Exploding on Launch Is a Grim Setback for the Company
NASA's Space Shuttle successfully reached orbit during its first attempt in April 1981. The Saturn V rocket that launched the ...
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Launch Complex 39: From Saturn to Shuttle to SpaceX and SLS
Based on NASA’s optimism about its future in the mid-sixties, it was overbuilt, with four vertical bays, each one of which could contain a Saturn V. There were to be three launch pads ...
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From doughnuts to liftoff, Apollo 11 launch was blast
It was the start of a big day: the launch of a Saturn V rocket, lifting man from the face of the Earth to the face of the moon. King, the chief of public information at Kennedy Space Center ...
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Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States entered the space station...
Skylab’s launch would mark the thirteenth and final flight of the legendary Saturn V rocket, which had powered previous Apollo missions on their journeys to the Moon. For the Skylab mission ...
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Huntsville's Apollo space program recognized with new coin
During liftoff, it generated 7.6 million pounds of thrust, surpassing the power of 85 Hoover Dams. The first Saturn V launch for the Apollo 4 mission happened in 1967, with the final launch in ...