WASHINGTON – Fifty years ago, men were launched to the moon on a Saturn V rocket. Only three of this type of rocket still exist, and none has ever been to D.C. Until now. A 363-foot Saturn V ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to raise sunken Apollo 11 moon rocket engines from the ocean floor. Learn more about the Saturn V rocket's F-1 engines in this SPACE.com infographic.

May: A Saturn 1 rocket blasts off on first flight of "dummy" Apollo spacecraft. July 2: Civil Rights Act signed by President Johnson. Nov. 28: Mariner 4 launched; first spacecraft to image Mars. 1965: ...

Rocket Mortgage has partnered with Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to install a new bronze statue of the Apollo 11 astronauts in honor of the moon landing mission's 50th anniversary.

It’s where Alabama is focusing its celebration of the golden anniversary of Apollo 11, and a lot of the celebration will take place at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center under one of the three ...

Apollo 11 climbs toward orbit after liftoff on July 16, 1969. In 2 1/2 minutes of powered flight, the S-IC booster lifts the vehicle to an altitude of about 39 miles, some 55 miles downrange.

The Saturn V rocket is now iconic for carrying the Apollo 11 crew to the moon in 1969. The projection-mapping artwork will occupy 363 of the monument's 555 vertical feet.

Apollo 6, an unmanned mission that flew on a Saturn V rocket in April 1968, encountered numerous problems of its own: unexpected up-and-down shaking, dubbed the “pogo effect” shortly after ...

On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were strapped into their Apollo spacecraft on top of the vast Saturn V rocket and were propelled into orbit in just over ...

Jeff Bezos' company, Bezos Expeditions, confirmed this morning that the F-1 rocket motor recovered from the Atlantic is, in fact, one of the motors from the Saturn V rocket that put the first men ...

The 363-foot projection of the rocket will also be flashed on the monument Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. It’s part of the Apollo 50 Festival, which includes performances ...

Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket needed a lot of power to launch into orbit and reach the Moon. Here's what engines the spacecraft used to accomplish its mission.