Some pieces were recovered, while other parts of Apollo 11's third stage orbited the Sun for decades before returning to Earth's gravitational pull. All told, the Saturn V rocket boasted 11 J-2 ...
Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper. Still, it's overshadowed by SpaceX's Starship, which current launches from ...
[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into orbit and onwards towards the moon – for a while now. Even though ...
While it might not be as exciting as the Saturn V rocket itself, the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC ... computer during iconic moments such as stage separation or lunar touchdown.
Among the space artifacts on display were the aforementioned Saturn V 500-D, a prototype used to fit-check ground support equipment; "Casper," the Apollo 16 command module that carried the ...
was converted from an S-IVB stage that had been intended for a Saturn IB rocket. A Saturn V rocket left over from the cancellation of the last three planned lunar Apollo missions would be used to ...
Apollo 10 successfully launched from LC ... and Liquid Hydrogen into the three stages of the Saturn V – forcing the propellant against the pull of gravity up nearly 300 feet of the ML.
A giant Saturn V rocket will fire Apollo 11 and her crew into space ... It works in three stages, each detaching after its job is done. The rocket generates 34.5 million newtons of thrust at ...