How Did the Spacecraft Get to the Moon? Astronauts got to the moon by traveling on a giant rocket (Saturn V) that launched ...
NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful upper stage, it was designed ...
Saturn V SA-513, the rocket tasked with deploying Skylab ... Weitz performed a stand-up spacewalk from the Command Module hatch in an attempt to free the panel using tools mounted on a three ...
Consider that 50 years ago this month a 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket weighing as much as 400 ... body (another first), rejoined the command module orbiting roughly 60 miles above the lunar ...
a Saturn V F-1 engine, and Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit and command module Columbia. The gallery shows how an extraordinary combination of motivations, resources, and technologies made it ...
Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin pose in front of their Saturn V rocket on May 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong, front, waves as the crew heads to the van that will take them to the rocket for launch at the ...