Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX announced Monday that it plans to launch two paying customers around the moon in late 2018. How hard will that be to accomplish, exactly? Gravity makes it ...

This post-Saturn Nova would have been much larger than the vehicle that powered the Apollo program, with eight F-1 engines pushing the rocket up in the sky, and the spacecraft on top of it to its ...

At 322 feet (98 meters), 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 8.8 million ...

The Saturn V was used for the entire Apollo program, culminating in the last mission to the Moon, Apollo 17 in 1972. The big rocket was also used to launch Nasa’s first space station, Skylab, in ...

NASA’s Artemis program will pick up where the famed Apollo program left off – returning humans to the moon, including landing the first woman and the first person of color at the lunar south ...

3.6K. As NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket stands ready for its first test flight next week, the Artemis program prepares to follow in the footsteps of Apollo, which first carried humans ...

Legend has it that the Saturn V launch for Apollo 11 melted concrete with the sheer power of its sound. Acoustic sensors from the SLS launch for Artemis I will show if that's true.

At 322 feet (98 meters), 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 8.8 million ...

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.

rocket power 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 8.8 million pounds (4 ...