Rockets are a major part of American aviation and a common hobby in the form of model rockets, but where did the modern ...

Humans had to aim high to reach the moon, but the Saturn V rocket was like nothing anyone has seen before or since.

A test rocket aimed at building the ability to launch satellites from Europe crashed about 40 seconds after takeoff from a Norwegian spaceport on Sunday. The unmanned Spectrum rocket, an orbital ...

Europe took a significant step in its aerospace ambitions with the first test launch of German start-up Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket. European private aerospace company Isar Aerospace ...

It was the largest German rocket since V-2, the Nazi-era rocket that has often been described as having launched the space age and was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile.

National security missions are the main purpose of ULA's new workhorse rocket, which will eventually replace both the Atlas V rocket and the already retired Delta IV. “Vulcan is uniquely ...

Once the most voluminous building in the world, the VAB was previously used to stack the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and the space shuttles that flew for 30 years. The launch vehicle stage adapter ...

followed by 12 flight Saturn V rockets for the Apollo Moon program and a final Saturn V to launch Skylab in 1973. Four of the smaller Saturn IB rockets, including three for Skylab missions and the one ...

In the 1960s, a radical aircraft design—powered by 10 engines with a cockpit perched above a giant fuselage—nearly became NASA’s solution for transporting Saturn V rocket stages. Dubbed the ...

Technicians in the assembly building replace the fins on the Saturn IB rocket's first stage. Inspections of the Saturn IB rocket's first stage fins revealed hairline cracks in several hold-down ...