Join us as we explore the legacy of Saturn V, the rocket that changed history! Megaprojects. Saturn V: NASA’s Most Powerful Rocket Explained. Posted: March 5, 2025 | Last updated: March 5, 2025.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Todd May's corner office overlooks the tree-lined hills where Wernher von Braun made the most powerful rockets the world has ever known. Just down the road stands a massive ...

3.6K. As NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket stands ready for its first test flight next week, the Artemis program prepares to follow in the footsteps of Apollo, which first carried humans ...

But the Saturn V's size wasn't the only factor that made the rocket outperform any space vehicle that NASA had ever built before. It was the Saturn V's power that made the difference, as it ...

Prior to that flight, NASA assembled a test rocket that brought together all the stages of the Saturn V rocket for testing at its Kennedy Space Center in early 1996.

S ince Aug. 17, NASA’s massive Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket has stood silent on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, towering over the Florida swamps. By any measure it’s a beautiful ...

NASA's sending an octocopter-lander to Saturn's cloud-covered moon, Titan, with SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket with a launch scheduled for 2028.

NASA’s Artemis 1 lifts off from launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., carrying the Orion spacecraft on a mission to orbit the moon, early Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.

The rocket is huge—322 feet (98 meters) tall—and about 15% more powerful than the Saturn V rocket that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s. It is also expensive ...

NASA After a delay, the next launch opportunity for NASA’s giant moon rocket is Friday. The space agency’s long-awaited Artemis I mission will have to wait until at least Friday, after a ...

SLS rockets are NASA’s newest rocket and the biggest since the Saturn V moon rocket. The 212-foot core stage of the rocket produces more than 2 million pounds of thrust to propel the rocket off ...

NASA touts SLS as the only rocket capable of transporting both crew and cargo for its deep-space destinations. A crewed Artemis II flight on an orbital moon mission is slated for no earlier than ...