Both the Saturn V and SLS are, or were, in the case of the Saturn V, super heavy-lift launch vehicles designed to loft large payloads and human crews into orbit and set them on a course for the Moon.

On October 27, 1961, NASA launched the first test flight of its new Saturn I space launch vehicle. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com The Saturn I was the United States' first ...

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.

The upgrade to the Saturn V was called Modified Launch Vehicle, or MLV. The Marshall Space Flight Center was tasked with coming up with the upgrades that would have made the rocket more capable ...

3.6K. As NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket stands ready for its first test flight next week, the Artemis program prepares to follow in the footsteps of Apollo, which first carried humans ...

While commercial companies serve the International Space Station (upper left), NASA plans to use the heavy-lift Space Launch System for missions to the moon and asteroids—and eventually Mars.

Other powerful rockets include the Saturn V rocket, which propelled the Apollo astronauts toward the moon five decades ago and was capable of around 7.6 million pounds of thrust.

Starship has a height of 120 meters compared to 111 meters for Saturn V — another super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA in 1967.

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 ...