It has not flown for more than 40 years, but the Saturn V remains the tallest and heaviest rocket ever operated. It is one of the most commanding vehicles ever made, as it’s still the only form of ...

There’s some weird and wonderful stuff on the internet. I recently ran across an animation showing a Saturn V rocket during liftoff, but with a small modification. Instead of shooting rocket ...

To meet the challenge of putting a man on the Moon, the Apollo space program needed a rocket more powerful and advanced than any that had ever been seen before. The final result was the Saturn V, the ...

Helicopters nowadays come in many shapes and sizes, but few are as strange as the Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane. First flown in 1962, it was built in rather limited numbers, just a little over 30 of them ...

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 ...

The Saturn V was an integral part of the Space Race. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The enormous Saturn V rocket is one of ...

The ninth Saturn V lifts off in January 1971 to start the Apollo 14 mission. The first people to ride the mighty booster were the Apollo 8 crew in December 1968. Recalled Bill Anders, “It felt to me ...

The first flight of SpaceX's long awaited Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled for January 31. If all goes well, it will be the most powerful operational booster in the world – at twice the capacity of ...