Five months after President John F. Kennedy promised that America would put a man on the Moon, NASA successfully showed that they had a rocket to get them there. Under development with Wernher von ...
NASA’s first Saturn I rocket launched on October 27, 1961, demonstrating heavy-lift capabilities and initiating the Saturn program that ultimately enabled crewed Apollo missions to the Moon.
On March 28, 1963 NASA launched the first stage booster of its new Saturn 1 rocket on a fourth and final test flight. This uncrewed suborbital flight helped pave the way for astronauts to launch to ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — For 44 years ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) — A bill that ...
Preliminary work is underway in dismantling the Saturn 1B rocket at the north Alabama welcome center on Interstate 65 near the Tennessee state line. NASA has been removing the engines from the rocket ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - U.S. Space and Rocket Center Board Chairman Wes Kelley has confirmed that the Saturn 1B rocket that sits along I-65 in Ardmore will be coming down. Kelley says that after a ...
ARDMORE, Ala. (WAFF) - The removal of the Saturn 1B rocket is underway along I-65 in Ardmore. On August 3, acting Marshall Space Flight Center News Chief Lance Davis confirmed the rocket removal has ...
No longer structurally sound, as the rocket demonstrated with a thud, it was not a total loss. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At ...
TULSA, Okla. — The iconic H-1 and J-2 Saturn Rocket engines arrived at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum on Wednesday. H-1 and J-2 Saturn Rocket engines are the same kind used in NASA’s Apollo missions.
The United States Mint is getting ready to put a rocket in your pocket. As first announced in 2022, the state of Alabama chose NASA's historic Saturn V to appear on a $1 coin as its example of ...