With the first flight of the Space Launch System on Monday, NASA wants to continue the glorious days of the Apollo program. This time the toughest competition comes from your own country.
It’s a record Nasa can’t be proud of. Fifty years following its last flight, the Saturn V remains the most powerful rocket ever to fly into space. She took 12 astronauts to the moon. When the last of them, Gene Cernan, left the moon on December 14, 1972, he expressed the hope that the goodbye would be short-lived. He was wrong. For the successors of Cernan, near-Earth space remained the measure of all things for decades.
