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 ...

Because of this, he sought a new manufacturer for rocket engines, and he found one in Nikolai Kuznetsov. In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel are pumped separately into the ...

“It will be a step forward in how we tell the whole Apollo story.” And a big part of that story is the 65 F-1 engines that propelled 13 Saturn V rockets off the launch pad.

The “V” stood for the five giant F-1 rocket engines—still the most powerful ever built—clustered at the bottom of the Saturn V’s first stage. At one point a four-engine version ...

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 ...

Unlike the Saturn V, however, Blue Origin plans ... these are the same BE-4 engines that will power United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket. The 2-stage New Glenn is 270 feet tall, and its ...

each powered by three of these engines. Marshall director Wernher von Braun presented that plan in August 1969, just two weeks after his Saturn V rocket delivered the first astronauts to the moon.

The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to ... in the aft portion of Starship resulted in the loss of several engines" minutes into the launch, according to the company's statement ...

Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin pose in front of their Saturn V rocket on May 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong, front, waves as the crew heads to the van that will take them to the rocket for launch at the ...