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 ...

NASA launched the final un-crewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send astronauts into space. On ...

To meet the challenge of putting a man on the Moon, the Apollo space program needed ... their salt should know a bit about the Saturn V, a rocket like no other before or since.

At a glance, the rocket will have a classic profile, reminiscent of a launcher even older than the space shuttle: the Saturn V ... like mist. Through binoculars, the base of Test Stand A-2 has the ...

followed by 12 flight Saturn V rockets for the Apollo Moon program and a final Saturn V to launch Skylab in 1973. Four of the smaller Saturn IB rockets, including three for Skylab missions and the one ...