The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

Standing on either side of the core stage are twin five-segment ... the VAB was previously used to stack the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and the space shuttles that flew for 30 years.

The 39-meter (128 ft) tall pedestal allowed the smaller Saturn IB rocket to use the same facilities on the mobile launcher as the larger Saturn V. The rocket itself comprised a Saturn IB first stage ...

In 1960, von Braun became both the director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre and the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket. The very same technology that had been used in the V-2 rockets was ...