In addition to holding the propellant for its four rear-mounted rocket engines, the core is the backbone ... used to stack the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and the space shuttles that flew for ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 28, 1935, Robert H. Goddard launched the first gyroscopically-stabilized liquid-fueled ...

Launched just over a year before World War II concluded, the V-1 was an unmanned pulse jet engine with a maximum speed of 400mph ... Space Flight Centre and the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket.