The launch of NASA's upcoming megarocket will be even louder, but the space agency has taken precautions to suppress the noise. Reading time 3 minutes On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) ...

Sure, you'd need relatively heavy lift for something with the mass of Tsar Bomba, but Saturn V can loft something like 5x that mass into LEO, and for an ICBM you don't even need to achieve LEO. So ...

Sade Sati, the much-feared seven-and-a-half-year phase of Saturn, has been a topic of both curiosity and concern in Vedic astrology. Many believe it brings hardships and struggles, while others see it ...

History does not record who the weeping woman was who joined the giant crowd at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 1962. But she was inconsolable. “I know it’s silly to carry on this ...

I’ve always found it interesting how quickly NASA/Huntsville/Von Braun were able to scale to the Saturn V. Less than ten years from launching a small LEO satellite using a Jupiter-C first stage ...