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.

The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components: the ...

Lift capability: Saturn V 100,000 pounds to the moon; SLS 154,000 pounds to the moon The capsule: The Orion capsule atop SLS can hold four crew members compared to the Apollo capsule’s three.

Until now, history’s most powerful rocket was the Apollo program’s Saturn 5, which put out a prodigious 7.5 million lbs (3.4 million kgs) of thrust when its engines were lit. But when NASA’s ...

The enormous Space Launch System (SLS) is scheduled to blast into space on August 29 as part of a six-week mission that will see it carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to lunar orbit and back.

The Saturn V was a massive, powerful rocket, standing 363 feet tall and weighing about 6.5 million pounds at the launch pad. The Saturn V generated around 7.6 million pounds of thrust at take off ...

Even 1.5 miles (2.4km) away, the noise from a Saturn V launch was recorded as being 120 decibels – as loud as a rock concert, or a car horn at very close quarters.

The Saturn V rocket remains one of NASA's greatest technological achievements—a powerful launch vehicle that finally brought the Moon within reach.

WASHINGTON, August 23, 2022 – The Saturn V carried man to the moon and remains the most powerful rocket to successfully launch to orbit. It captures the imagination — but sometimes, it might ...

By most estimations, there are only around 40 or so feet (12.19-m) in height between the Space Launch System and the Apollo Era Saturn V. The SLS measures 322 (98.1-m) feet tall compared to the ...