The Apollo 4 Saturn 5 rocket had rolled out of the VAB, testing that building's fitness for eventual moon landings. Astronauts were training to go to the moon in two years.

The Apollo 4 mission (also known as AS-501, the Saturn V designation number) was followed by a second and final uncrewed test flight of the mighty rocket, Apollo 6 (AS-502) in April 1968.

The Saturn V’s first-stage rockets—five F1s made by Rocketdyne—are the most powerful single-nozzle liquid fueled rocket engines ever to see service. The engine bell for each was over 12 feet ...

The Saturn V was a massive, powerful rocket, standing 363 feet tall and weighing about 6.5 million pounds at the launch pad. The Saturn V generated around 7.6 million pounds of thrust at take off ...

On December 21, 2015, after the Dragon Spacecraft was launched into orbit, the SpaceX company celebrated victory. The main ...

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 ...

Subsequent flights’ payloads were too heavy for this smaller rocket, so every mission after Apollo 7 used the Saturn V by necessity. The Saturn IB’s utility extended beyond the Apollo program.

The cast of "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" — from left to right, Pedro Pascal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn and Vanessa Kirby — stand under the display of a Saturn V moon rocket and hit ...

The Saturn family of rockets was the family that enabled the Apollo missions to fly to the Moon. It was conceived in the early 1960s by Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket engineers.