Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo towards the ... had to be aborted following an explosion. Most of the other modules ...
On July 3, 1969, the N-1, Russia's answer to the Apollo program's Saturn V ... In 1983, a Soyuz rocket and module exploded not long after takeoff. Astoundingly, the crew was able to eject ...
Like most of the other Apollo missions, they lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's historic launchpad 39A on a gigantic Saturn V rocket. This was the last time a Saturn V rocket would launch ...
On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a ...