Fifty-five years ago Saturday, humanity made its first visit to the lunar surface with Apollo 11. Lifting off atop the gigantic Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission forever changed ...

For a few magic years in the 1960s and 1970s, a powerful rocket hefted humans towards the moon. The Saturn V is probably NASA's most famous rocket, with its iconic 363-foot (110-meter) profile showing ...

More than 40 years in the making, the Saturn V rocket was born of the worst war in history—but came of age as humanity's crowning engineering achievement when it launched the first men who would walk ...

On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA cancelled the production of its Saturn V rocket. The giant rocket was the only launch vehicle to have ever carried astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, and it was the largest, most ...

Ars Technica's Space Editor Eric Berger joined Robert Pearlman of collectSPACE.com together with Space.com at Space Center Houston to build the Lego NASA Saturn V rocket. Timelapse covers approx. 4 ...

The first-ever rollouts of the Saturn V and SLS occurred 56 years apart. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "It was a sight unseen ...

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is now nearly six decades old—it was formally created on July 1, 1962 as a separate entity from Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Construction began soon after. At ...

It doesn't matter how many people NASA's Space Launch System rocket eventually lands on the Moon. No matter whether it's 15 percent as estimated, 20, or even 30 percent more powerful than the Saturn V ...

You can now help revive the Saturn V. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama has launched a public effort to return its one-of-a-kind standing replica of the Saturn V moon rocket to its ...

LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V Building set ($119.99) In the early morning hours of July 16, 1969, technicians at the Kennedy Space Center loaded upward of 750,000 gallons of fuel into the 363-foot ...