On February 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful upper ...

Two weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union launched its Saturn V rival, the N1, and watched it detonate in one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever recorded. Using declassified ...

In 1965, North American Aviation was asked to design a rescue mission for astronauts stranded at the Moon or in lunar orbit.

Rockets like Artemis II are big and heavy. Here's how specialized crawler transporters safely move them from assembly bays to ...

A massive upheaval in the Saturnian system could have also led to the moon Hyperion.

NASA sent the Artemis II rocket back from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B to the Vehicle Assembly Building to fix a ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers founded the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center on Redstone Arsenal in the 1960’s to ...

On, NASA reached a pivotal milestone in America’s race to the Moon with the first launch of an Apollo-Saturn IB rocket, known as AS-201, from Cape Kennedy—today’s Cape Canaveral.

NASA is now targeting March 2026 for Artemis II — the first crewed lunar mission since 1972. It will set the stage for Artemis III’s planned moon landing in 2028.

In the shadow of the Saturn V, senior Army leaders, warrant officers and frontline Soldiers gathered Feb. 18 to explain why the service’s first Best ...

The space agency revealed the latest problem on Saturday, just one day after targeting March 6 for humanity’s first flight to the moon in more than half a century.

Cape Canaveral is no dusty history tour, despite the consecrated status this oceanside resort area holds as the birthplace of American spaceflight. The Space Coast, as it’s often called, is not just ...