When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

SpaceX has now launched eight full-scale test flights of Starship, with a Super Heavy booster and Starship's upper stage ...

SpaceX said 29 of the booster's 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines are flight-proven ... twice the power of NASA's Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts toward the Moon. Super Heavy is perhaps ...

In each is an RS-25, the space shuttle’s main engine. With the exception of one ... launcher even older than the space shuttle: the Saturn V. Like Saturn, each SLS booster will fly just once ...

In addition to holding the propellant for its four rear-mounted rocket engines, the core is the backbone ... used to stack the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and the space shuttles that flew for ...

Voices join in unison for the final countdown, and a burst of flame appears on the horizon as rocket engines ignite ... the comfort of the Apollo/Saturn V Center or main vistor complex.

As for the launch vehicle pictured above, the Saturn IB was the final in a series that began with the Saturn V check-out vehicle, followed by 12 flight Saturn V rockets for the Apollo Moon program and ...