The first people to ride the mighty booster were the Apollo 8 crew in December 1968. Recalled Bill Anders, “It felt to me on the first stage ride like ... Saturn V carried Neil Armstrong’s ...

The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology to land on the Moon. The Saturn V rocket was the largest ... rocket through the upper atmosphere. Like the first stage, much of the second ...

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 rocket climbs into orbit.

As part of her personal collection she somehow acquired a Launch Vehicle Digital Computer board for a Saturn V rocket. This particular unit was never used. But it would have been had the Apollo ...

The outer structure of the LSAM cabin will likely be a cylinder, similar to the large pressurized cans that make up the ...

Consider that 50 years ago this month a 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket weighing as much as ... But the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 reminds us that this laughably ambitious goal has in fact ...

A giant Saturn V rocket will fire Apollo 11 and her crew into space. With so much power underneath them, it’s like riding to work ... A series of short films that look at the challenges faced ...

An ambitious post-Apollo program was imagined — one that would have seen the Saturn V fly well beyond the last moon mission in 1972. But it never materialized. A look back at Apollo 11 ...

With Apollo 11’s successful landing on the ... The Skylab launch was the only time a Saturn V would fly with a payload fairing. Like earlier Saturn V missions, the rocket was assembled in ...

As Marc explains, Apollo actually had four main computers. There was the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) which was charged with steering the Saturn V from launch, along with the Flight ...