Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX announced Monday that it plans to launch two paying customers around the moon in late 2018. How hard will that be to accomplish, exactly? Gravity makes it ...

This animation, which has the Sun to the left, shows J002E3 being captured into a chaotic orbit around the Earth. Paul Chodas and Ron Baalke. Interestingly, while the S-IVB from Apollo 12 was ...

This post-Saturn Nova would have been much larger than the vehicle that powered the Apollo program, with eight F-1 engines pushing the rocket up in the sky, and the spacecraft on top of it to its ...

In Washington, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is projecting a life-like, massive Saturn V rocket on the east side of the Washington Monument in a realistic depiction of the famous ...

Rocket Men tells the story of the Apollo 8 mission –man’s first journey away from his home planet, and his first arrival at the Moon. It focuses on Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders ...

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 ...

It takes a lot of fuel to reach that speed, which is why early rockets, like Apollo's Saturn V, were so big: ... This animation shows how fast a rocket must go to leave every planet.

Initiated in 1961, Apollo landed the first humans on the Moon just eight years later, and then continued to do so until 1972. It is only now, in our times, that America is trying to make a ...

At 322 feet (98 meters), the new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million ...

NASA’s new SLS moon rocket, short for Space Launch System, is 41 feet shorter than the Saturn V rockets used during Apollo a half-century ago. AP “I want to underscore that this is a test ...

Still from an animation that simulates the last half-minute of a spacecraft's lunar descent before engine cutoff. The fluctuating radial patterns show the intensity of predicted shear stress, or ...