A Saturn V rocket launches from Pad 39A on the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. NASA The first astronauts to launch from LC-39A were the Apollo 8 crew, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders ...

On November 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall.

As part of her personal collection she somehow acquired a Launch Vehicle Digital Computer board for a Saturn V rocket. This particular unit was never used. But it would have been had the Apollo ...

Saturn V is still the largest and most powerful rocket ... "I think we were all surprised at how strong that thing was," Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman said in 2011. Astronaut Charlie Duke ...

[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into orbit and onwards towards the moon – for a while now. Even though ...

lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida atop a Saturn V, before completing 10 orbits around the Moon. The crew of Apollo 8 spent 20 hours in orbit, before returning to Earth. They splashed down ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would fulfill President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth ...