HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Huntsville company competing to power NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket to Mars says the best engines for the job may be the same massive F-1 engines that lifted the Saturn V ...

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the ...

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Why Has No Rocket Surpassed Saturn V? Despite advances in technology, no rocket has matched Saturn V’s power and size. But why? Was it too expensive? Too complex? Or was it simply perfect for its time ...

The F-15 twin-engine, high-performance, all-weather air superiority fighter became operational in November 1974 as the first aircraft in the US Military arsenal that could accelerate in a vertical ...

On October 27, 1961, NASA launched the first test flight of its new Saturn I space launch vehicle. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com The Saturn I was the United States' first heavy-lift ...

(AP) A vintage rocket engine built to blast the first U.S. lunar mission into Earth’s orbit more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern landscape. The engine, known to NASA engineers ...