The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, ...

For the first N-1 launch, the rocket was powered by 30 of these closed-cycle engines, each running at about 1/6 of the thrust of a Saturn V engine. Whether you’re shaking or nodding your head at ...

Many years before President Trump expressed his intention to send an American crewed mission to Mars, Wernher von Braun developed an ambitious plan for exploring the Red Planet called Das Marsprojekt.