Once the Apollo 11 crew reached the Moon's gravity, the speed increased to 5,600 mph. While the Saturn V's top speed is indeed incredible, the Apollo 10 actually set the bar just months before, in ...

The Apollo 10 (Spacecraft 106/Lunar Module 4/Saturn 505) space vehicle with crew members Eugene Cernan, John Young and Thomas Stafford on board is launched from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy ...

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Marcus’s smooth prose takes us quickly through the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. A schematic depicts the internal construction of the massive Saturn V rocket, with the first engine ...

On November 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's taller than the Statue of Liberty! It was the biggest and most ...

Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket needed a lot of power to launch into orbit and reach the Moon. Here's what engines the spacecraft used to accomplish its mission.

The Artemis generation stands on those powerful Apollo shoulders, but without Saturn V, none of NASA’s great accomplishments of the 1960s and 1970s would have been possible.

Since the 1960s, computers have been essential tools for space travel. The enormous Saturn V rockets that carried astronauts to the moon used an automatic launch sequence to guide the spacecraft into ...

A real schematic of a rocket engine used by NASA's Apollo program (left), and one imagined by Midjourney's image-generating software (right). "What are those bellows for at the bottom?" ...

We asked the new AI to do some simple rocket science. It crashed and burned By Geoff Brumfiel Published February 2, 2023 at 5:00 AM EST Listen 6:45 NPR staff generated imagery using Midjourney ...