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The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...

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

[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 ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Soyuz that brought the first UK astronaut back to Earth and the only ...

On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building ...

A giant Saturn V rocket will fire Apollo 11 and her crew into space. With so much power underneath them, it’s like riding to work on a nuclear bomb. Saturn V weighs over 2.8 million kg fully ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn ... Space Center, Florida. That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as ...

Saturn V SA-513, the rocket tasked with deploying ... missions beyond the lifespan of the fuel cells on visiting Apollo spacecraft, while the loss of thermal protection from the lost ...