More than half a century after it came into being, the Saturn V rocket remains the largest and most powerful rocket that has ...

The first moon landing will be displayed on screens nearby. Houston, we have a celebration. To honor the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...

Since the last manned lunar mission, Apollo 17 in 1972, mankind has taken one giant leap backward. Neither the United States nor any other country currently has the means to send a manned mission to ...

Disney's Marvel Studios launched its highly anticipated first look at "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" on Tuesday (Feb. 4), by broadcasting live from a site that is well-suited to fit into the 1960's ...

In the late 1960s, a group of graduate students at MIT took on an extraordinary challenge: figuring out how to stop an ...

The Saturn I rocket, developed by Wernher von Braun's team since 1957, was designed to facilitate American lunar ambitions, integrating components and reusing hardware from existing missile ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Logistics were about a third of the cost of the Saturn V program, so any delivery improvement in speed or reliability was imperative. It was... Here’s What You Need To ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is the first, or S-1C-D-1C ...

The race to land man on the moon in the 1960s was a wild time for engineers, who were working at the edge of what was possible to try and fly a rocket the size of a 25-story building to our nearest ...