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 ...

On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight, and fifty ...

Indeed, this rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), is set to supersede Saturn V as the most powerful vehicle ... especially when life is aboard a giant tower teeming with fuel.

The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969. Even NASA's ultra-expensive and expendable Space Launch System didn't erupt into a ...

The Saturn V rocket stood 363 feet tall ... to the Kennedy Space Center pad in the coming years. A launch tower specifically for Starship already stands on site as SpaceX has been contracted ...

The 201-foot tower will give the pad and ... SpaceX will launch astronauts from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A, a former Saturn V and space shuttle pad now being modified to support Falcon 9 ...