NASA’s first test flight of the Saturn V rocket launched Nov. 9, 1967 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 50 years ago. (Image credit: NASA) ...

The rocket that launched the first astronauts to the moon will blast off from the back of a new dollar coin in 2024. NASA's Saturn V will be featured on Alabama's American Innovation $1 Coin.

The Saturn V was used for the entire Apollo program, culminating in the last mission to the Moon, Apollo 17 in 1972. The big rocket was also used to launch Nasa’s first space station, Skylab, in ...

He was selected as a NASA astronaut in September 1962. The rocket that took the three men into space was a Saturn V, designed at the Marshall Space Flight Center here in Huntsville.

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 Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's taller than the Statue of Liberty! It was the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. NASA needed this powerful rocket to launch astronauts to the moon.

In 1962, NASA decided to proceed instead with the smaller Saturn V rocket, on which astronauts would to perform an orbital docking procedure a quarter-million miles from Earth before they could ...

Photo: NASA On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, generating 7.5 million pounds of thrust.

HOUSTON — NASA’s Johnson Space Center will host the grand opening of a restored Houston landmark and national treasure, the immense Saturn V rocket resting at the space center gate, on July 20 ...

Once those are added, the SLS rocket would have about 8.8 million pounds of thrust -- 15 percent more power than the Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the moon during the Apollo era.

The Space Launch System (SLS) NASA is planning to launch Monday is the biggest rocket capable of carrying humans since the Saturn V Apollo moon rocket. Development of both deep space rockets was ...

The big rocket was also used to launch Nasa’s first space station, Skylab, in 1973, which turned out to be the last Saturn V launch.