It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. The super heavy rockets were built and used for ...

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

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

1963-1972 – NASA’s Apollo program seeks to establish the ... 1973-1974 – NASA’s Skylab program. Three missions are completed, with astronauts spending a total of 171 days in space.

The term space station was coined by Hermann Oberth, a Romanian Rocket pioneer ... this was never originally the plan. Skylab was born out of excess Apollo hardware from three canceled lunar ...

A crew of four international spacefarers on a private mission will soon seek to become the first humans to travel over ...