A Saturn V rocket launches from Pad 39A on the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. NASA The first astronauts to launch from LC-39A were the Apollo 8 crew, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is ... Standing at more than 100m (363ft), the Saturn V rocket burned some 20 tonnes of fuel a second at launch. Propellant accounted for 85% of its ...

However, the first Saturn V launch didn't carry astronauts ... V rocket launched the first astronauts to the moon with the Apollo 8 mission. All of the Apollo missions that followed also launched ...

In order to see how Saturn V rockets would hold up to the stresses of life in Florida, engineers gave the rockets a good ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission where humans orbited the moon and returned home, marking a huge step forward in human and ...

On the day of launch, Apollo 11 will have a multi-hour launch window, allowing for a potential recycle of the Saturn V countdown to realign the launch time for later in the day and allow launch ...

The US was still riven with conflict and protest. The final Apollo mission was the first night launch of the powerful Saturn V rocket. As if mirroring the 10 years of the Apollo era in a few short ...

[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 ...

Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper.

On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a ...