Why Has No Rocket Surpassed Saturn V? Despite advances in technology, no rocket has matched Saturn V’s power and size. But why? Was it too expensive? Too complex? Or was it simply perfect for its time ...

HOUSTON — Dwarfed by the Saturn V rocket's immense size, 10-year-old Adam Brauscum stood in awe as his father described how such massive machinery carried man to the moon. "It's so big," Adam said ...

For a few magic years in the 1960s and 1970s, a powerful rocket hefted humans towards the moon. The Saturn V is probably NASA's most famous rocket, with its iconic 363-foot (110-meter) profile showing ...

To meet the challenge of putting a man on the Moon, the Apollo space program needed a rocket more powerful and advanced than any that had ever been seen before. The final result was the Saturn V, the ...

Editor’s note: This article about Cape Canaveral, The Kennedy Space Center, and the space program is part of WRAL TechWire’s weeklong contribution to the Triangle’s “Lift Off NC: Apollo + Beyond” ...

If you look at it just the right way, the Saturn V is the most successful human-rated rocket ever made. After all, until next year's Artemis II mission kicks off, it will remain the only piece of ...

More than 40 years in the making, the Saturn V rocket was born of the worst war in history—but came of age as humanity's crowning engineering achievement when it launched the first men who would walk ...

Local history, a national treasure destroyed by fire. Or was it? Construction crews are working on a huge new building to house the original Saturn V rocket after a huge fire on campus, officials ...

The Saturn V rocket used by NASA to launch Americans to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s remained the most powerful rocket ever successfully launched all the way up until 2022, when the Space Launch ...