To achieve this, the Saturn V was outfitted with several engines, each providing thrust for one of the rocket's three stages. As each stage burned through its fuel, it was dropped and left to ...

For the first N-1 launch, the rocket was powered by 30 of these closed-cycle engines, each running at about 1/6 of the thrust of a Saturn V engine. Whether you’re shaking or nodding your head at ...

the Saturn V rocket stood at an impressive 363 feet tall, equivalent to a 36-story building. During liftoff, it generated 7.6 million pounds of thrust, surpassing the power of 85 Hoover Dams.

Just over a week after SpaceX's launchpad rocket failure ... will spew out 3.85 million pounds of thrust — about half as powerful as NASA's Saturn V launcher (and 30% less powerful than a ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

The first and second stages provide the initial thrust and then separate from ... Apollo S-IVB stages — the third stages of the Saturn V rockets that took six crews of astronauts to the moon.

As part of her personal collection she somehow acquired a Launch Vehicle Digital Computer board for a Saturn V rocket. This particular unit was never used. But it would have been had the Apollo ...

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 ...