The Apollo spacecraft that went on top ... First flight of the Saturn V, November 9, 1967. “Our building’s shaking!” reported Walter Cronkite, “oh, the roar is terrific!” ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would ... V rocket from High Bay 1 in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The trip down the crawlerway is ...

It's from this giant building that the Saturn V rocket rose up and into history. An ambitious post-Apollo program was imagined — one that would have seen the Saturn V fly well beyond the last ...

“It will be a step forward in how we tell the whole Apollo story.” And a big part of that story is the 65 F-1 engines that propelled 13 Saturn V rockets off the launch pad.

equivalent to a 36-story building. During liftoff, it generated 7.6 million pounds of thrust, surpassing the power of 85 Hoover Dams. The first Saturn V launch for the Apollo 4 mission happened in ...

Additionally, the Saturn V that carried all these astronauts throughout the Apollo program remains the biggest and most powerful rocket ever launched with the record for the largest payload ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

the 363-foot rocket was as tall as a 36-story building. Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

With Apollo 11’s successful ... Like earlier Saturn V missions, the rocket was assembled in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, with build-up commencing on Aug. 2, 1972.