The SLS is a two stage rocket, but unlike the Saturn V, and like the Space Shuttle, uses two solid rocket boosters attached to the side of the big rocket’s main booster stage. Unlike newer ...

The VAB does not feature in SpaceX's plans though. While it hosted the Space Shuttle after that final Saturn rocket rolled out, its future is all about the SLS.

Saturn V stood at 363 feet tall ... That's still shorter than a Falcon 9 rocket — and a Space Shuttle orbiter by itself measures only 122 feet long. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

This rocket, the Saturn V, could propel the weight of some ... constructing the International Space Station, and built the Space Shuttle to bring astronauts and infrastructure to Earth's orbit ...

At a glance, the rocket will have a classic profile, reminiscent of a launcher even older than the space shuttle: the Saturn V. Like Saturn, each SLS booster will fly just once, then be discarded.

The space shuttle Atlantis maneuvers in unpredictable-but-fun ways, while the "Artemis rocket" can make long gliding landings at times. The Saturn V flew the highest by far, reaching upwards of 60 ...

Many of us in the San Joaquin Valley have seen the exhaust trail of a rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base near the ...

“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 ...

The Saturn V rocket stood 363 feet tall ... NASA had to get creative during the Space Shuttle program when it came to bringing the reusable shuttle into a vertical launch position − and ...

a massive heavy-lift rocket that looks a bit like a mashup of the Space Shuttle and the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo astronauts to the Moon more than a half-century ago. SLS will be the most ...