To achieve this, the Saturn V was outfitted with several engines, each providing thrust for one of the rocket's three stages. As each stage burned through its fuel, it was dropped and left to ...

German rocket scientist Wernher von ... The Apollo 4 mission launched with a Saturn V on November 9, 1967, at 7 am EST. When the five F-1 engines ignited eight seconds before liftoff, the sound ...

NASA planned to make the engines even more capable ... tanks would have needed to be increased as well. The Saturn V didn't use solid rocket boosters in its initial form, but NASA considered ...

When NASA’s Saturn V rocket launched humans to the moon a half ... (For context, commercial jet engines range from about 120 to 160 decibels.) And, because that is a logarithmic measure, every ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

Elon Musk described continued improvement of the Raptor 3 engine beyond levels reported in May. The Saturn V rocket generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust. A 20 million pound ...

For decades, an engine concept known as aerospike has been an elusive rival to the traditional bell-nozzle rocket. Although capable of delivering higher payloads while decreasing overall rocket ...

For older residents of the Rocket City, this month’s long, loud test fire, the latest in a series of engine tests, was an echo of the 1960s when NASA tested Saturn V engines in the same test stand.