In light of this, NASA made the bold decision to send Borman, Lovell, and Anders all the way to the moon as the first crewed flight of the massive and powerful Saturn V rocket sans a lunar module.
25) that it has picked the Falcon Heavy to loft Dragonfly, a $3.35 billion mission that will investigate the life-hosting potential of Saturn's huge moon Titan. The burly rocket also launched NASA ...
China's new Long March 12 rocket made a successful inaugural flight Saturday, placing two experimental satellites into orbit and testing uprated, higher-thrust engines that will allow a larger ...
tall—and about 15% more powerful than the Saturn V rocket that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s. It is also expensive, costing an estimated $4.1 billion per launch.