There are two photos from pad 39A after the first Saturn V launch in 1967. The Saturn V damaged the launch pad during its launches and set fires on the launch tower. The Saturn V has half of the power ...

On November 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's taller than the Statue of Liberty! It was the biggest and most powerful ...

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” President John Kennedy said famously in a 1962 speech. A bold goal, and a ...

NASA's SLS rocket as it starts rolling out to its Kennedy Space Center launchpad. Credit: NASA / Ben Smegelsky When NASA blasted its colossal rocket to the moon in July 1969, the denizens of Earth ...

Fifty-five years ago Saturday, humanity made its first visit to the lunar surface with Apollo 11. Lifting off atop the gigantic Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission forever changed ...