The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...

While it hosted the Space Shuttle after that final Saturn rocket rolled out, its future is all about the SLS. However, considering the structure was initially built for stacking Saturn rockets, ...

The Saturn V was used for the entire Apollo program, culminating in the last mission to the Moon, Apollo 17 in 1972. The big rocket was also used to launch Nasa’s first space station, Skylab, in ...

That rocket would be known as the Saturn V, a three-stage rocket that, until the space shuttle era, was the most powerful launch vehicle to successfully take flight.

The Artemis I mission’s rocket engines and boosters have direct ties to Columbia, Challenger and each of the other shuttles, and even one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

At a glance, the rocket will have a classic profile, reminiscent of a launcher even older than the space shuttle: the Saturn V. Like Saturn, each SLS booster will fly just once, then be discarded.

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is set to supersede the Saturn V as the most powerful launch vehicle ever blasted into space. The Artemis 1 mission is set to launch to the moon.

If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA , it stood at only 184 ...

Fifty-five years ago Saturday, humanity made its first visit to the lunar surface with Apollo 11.Lifting off atop the gigantic Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission forever ...

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 ...