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Saturn V: NASA’s Most Powerful Rocket Explained
Why Has No Rocket Surpassed Saturn V? Despite advances in technology, no rocket has matched Saturn V’s power and size. But why? Was it too expensive? Too complex? Or was it simply perfect for its time ...
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50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled ...
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In-depth Look At An LVCD Board From A Saturn V Rocket
Join [Fran] as she dons the hat of an electronics archaeologist when looking at this vintage circuit board from the space race ... Computer board for a Saturn V rocket. This particular unit ...
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Voyager: A History in Photos
The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from ... the darkness of space, and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops very ...
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Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States entered the space station...
On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight ...
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Russian Rocket Tech Comes In From The Cold
Decades after the end of the space race ... he sought a new manufacturer for rocket engines, and he found one in Nikolai Kuznetsov. In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel ...
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Model rocket launch to mark 50th anniversary of first moon walk
Led by Wernher von Braun, the powerful Saturn V rocket was developed to lift the three Americans on their historic mission, according to information from the space center. With the 50-year ...
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Saturn's moons: Facts about the weird and wonderful satellites of the ringed planet
Saturn has 274 moons recognized by the International Astronomical Union. The number of moons increased substantially in March 2025 when 128 new moons were discovered by a team led by Edward Ashton ...
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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'
Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Voyager 1's own plasma science instrument stopped working correctly in 1980 and was turned off in 2007 to ...
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From launch to lunar landing: Photos show first journey to the moon 50 years ago
Neil Armstrong, front, waves as the crew heads to the van that will take them to the rocket for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 16, 1969. The Saturn V rocket ...
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SpaceX scrubs 8th test flight of heavy-lift rocket Starship from Texas base
Overall, the Starship is 394 feet compared with the Saturn V rocket ... from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Science News // 22 hours ago Germany's Spectrum rocket launch scrubbed, to be ...