On Jan. 13, 1975, inside the cavernous VAB, workers stacked the Saturn IB rocket's first stage onto Mobile Launcher-1 (ML-1), modified from its use to launch Saturn V rockets during the Apollo program ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! In fact, the lunar occultation of Saturn was only visible across certain parts of the world due to the moon ...

the space agency's successor to the Saturn V for sending astronauts to the moon. The biggest rocket of all, at approximately 400 feet (123 meters), is SpaceX's Starship. Musk said the seventh test ...

Maximum thrust at liftoff is 3.8 million pounds, which is about half the thrust that was generated by the Saturn V moon rockets of the Apollo era. After stage separation, New Glenn’s first-stage ...

These heavy-lift vehicles have roughly the size and heft of NASA's Saturn V — the rocket that launched Apollo astronauts to the moon — but they're designed for even more ambitious goals.

Blue Origin’s webcast last showed the booster at an altitude of about 84,000 feet. New Glenn is the size of a 30-story skyscraper at 322 feet tall, nearly as tall as the Saturn V rockets that carried ...

Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket from Florida for the first time early Thursday morning. The uncrewed rocket took off at about 2 a.m. ET and reached orbit. New Glenn, which is as tall as ...

Blue Origin's 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket seeks to perform a fully operational mission. A graphic above compares New Glenn to the Saturn V and United Launch Alliance's powerful Delta IV Heavy ...

Blue Origin launched its towering New Glenn rocket for the first time on Thursday, in a crucial milestone for Jeff Bezos' space company. New Glenn thundered off the launchpad in the early morning ...