On Thursday, the SpaceX capsule 'Grace' successfully docked with the International Space Station carrying four astronauts.

At 98 metres, 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 4 million kilograms of ...

The final result was the Saturn V, the rocket that would power all six successful moon landings and the launching of the ...

The Saturn V rocket. Actual: $9.4 billion; Inflation Adjusted: $96 billion The Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 into space was 363 feet (111 meters) high. It weighed 6,698,700 pounds.

Well, unless you were an astronaut. Then escape for you started even further in the air from a high-speed elevator capable of plummeting the spacecraft's crew down from the capsule and into the ...

On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. ... but were killed when their capsule depressurized during re-entry.

The Saturn V rocket remains one of NASA's greatest technological achievements—a powerful launch vehicle that finally brought the Moon within reach.

The capsule blasted off on Nov. 16 from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, ... now the world's most powerful rocket and the biggest NASA has built since the Saturn V of the Apollo era. ...

Only the Soviet N-1, meant to compete with Apollo’s Saturn V, had more thrust (some 10 million pounds), but it blew up four times. The Orion capsule atop the SLS core stage is the first human-rated ...

Where the SLS does top the Saturn V is power. With the help of two upgraded solid rocket boosters, the SLS is 15% more powerful than the Saturn V, generating 8.8 million pounds of thrust at launch.

Artemis 1 begins a long lunar journey. The lift-off took place at storied Launch Pad 39B, which has hosted one Saturn V launch for Apollo 10, and four Saturn 1B missions for Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz.