The Saturn V, still the most powerful rocket to ever fly, pending the launch of SLS, was first flown in an uncrewed test flight in 1967, and launched its first crewed flight in 1968, the lunar ...

3.6K. As NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket stands ready for its first test flight next week, the Artemis program prepares to follow in the footsteps of Apollo, which first carried humans ...

In sheer scale, the SLS rocket nearly lives up to the Saturn V legacy. This "Block 1" initial SLS version clocks in at 322 feet high – taller than the Statue of Liberty but not as tall as the ...

Where the SLS does top the Saturn V is power. With the help of two upgraded solid rocket boosters, the SLS is 15% more powerful than the Saturn V, generating 8.8 million pounds of thrust at launch.

Saturn V performed its first flight on November 9, 1967, as pictured here. Apollo 4 was a full-scale demonstration mission, but without a crew. NASA had hoped to launch the rocket earlier in the ...

The Artemis I mission’s rocket engines and boosters have direct ties to Columbia, Challenger and each of the other shuttles, and even one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

The SLS design is similar to the approach of the space shuttle, the launches of which produced a little over 6.4 million pounds of thrust during their run from 1981-2011.

Inside NASA’s giant rocket garage — the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). This video covers the cranes, platforms, and crawler built to move these giant spacecraft, including the Saturn V ...

The Saturn V moon rocket launched in 1967 as part of the Apollo 4 mission. Photo: NASA On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

As soon as the morning of 29 August, the largest rocket to ever fly will lift off from Nasa’s launch complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The Artemis I mission, the first flight of ...

The Artemis I mission’s rocket engines and boosters have direct ties to Columbia, Challenger and each of the other shuttles, and even one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.