With the historic first international space docking mission only six months away, preparations on the ground for the ...

For the first time since its founding, nearly a quarter of a century ago, Blue Origin had reached orbit. The long-awaited ...

A Saturn V rocket left over from the cancellation ... Retro-rockets pushed the S-IC away from the S-II second stage, whose five J-2 engines ignited to take over the job of boosting Skylab towards ...

363 feet Three stage The massive Saturn V rocket launched Apollo spacecrafts carrying crews of three astronauts to the moon during late 1960s and early 1970s. It also launched America's first ...

On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were strapped into their Apollo spacecraft on top of the vast Saturn V rocket ... the rocket's third stage fired again ...

The upper stages of NASA’s Saturn V rockets have also crashed into the moon during the Apollo programme as well as the Atlas V rocket back in ... and India's Chandrayaan 2 to examine the crash.

Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper.