Among the space artifacts on display were the aforementioned Saturn V 500-D, a prototype used to fit-check ground support equipment; "Casper," the Apollo 16 command module that carried the ...

After Apollo, the Skylab space station, a converted Saturn V third stage on two active stages, also flew from A. But all three Skylab crews ascended to space from 39B on Saturn IBs. To save money ...

Why It Matters: The Saturn V was used in the Apollo programs in the 1960s and 1970s, weighed 6.2 million pounds, and generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust at launch.

But in a seven-hour test flight, LM last week performed like a full-fledged space swan. Launched by the same Saturn I rocket atop which the fatal Apollo fire occurred last year, the LM was ...

On the afternoon of Jan. 27, clad in their space suits, the crew boarded the Apollo 1 capsule, perched high atop the Saturn IB ... But the real horror came when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11 ... rocket for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 16, 1969. The Saturn V rocket launches from Pad A, Launch ...

trying to retrieve a teddy bear that someone had thrown into the rafter holding the second stage of the Saturn V rocket. At the time, I was a teacher at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex ...

The montage also included a vertical replica of the Saturn V standing 363 feet (110 meters) tall; mockups of International Space Station modules as are used by Space Camp and Space Academy ...