After von Braun’s visit was announced, some Ball State faculty openly opposed his invitation. Rumors began circulating of a ...

selected materials used for the Redstone rocket that carried Alan Shepard into space; and led the development of the Saturn V propulsion system, helping construct the towering black and white ...

Though some parts of the space station will be kept in orbit, NASA plans to bring it down safely, rather than leaving it to plummet SkyLab-style ... it on the last Saturn V in May of 1973.

During the Apollo program, the Saturn V rocket had a mass ratio of 23. This means that a fully-fueled Saturn V rocket was 23 times more massive than when all its fuel was used up. Now, there have ...

Thirty-three Raptor engines propelled the 404-foot-tall (123.1-meter) rocket through a clear afternoon sky with more than twice the power of NASA's Saturn V rocket, the workhorse of the Apollo ...