Marcus’s smooth prose takes us quickly through the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. A schematic depicts the internal construction of the massive Saturn V rocket, with the first engine ...

The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...

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Dale Strong. The area encompasses NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which has had a role in rocket engineering and U.S. space exploration efforts from the Saturn rockets integral to moon ...

which was put to work in the 1960s as a testing site of the Saturn rockets, and in the early 2000s for the testing of Delta IVs. It's not exactly clear how fast SpaceX will move on all of this ...