It was designed to go to the moon, but a little coastal humidity is all it took for the towering Saturn V rocket at Johnson Space Center to begin to rot like an old pickup left in the front yard.

On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA cancelled the production of its Saturn V rocket. The giant rocket was the only launch vehicle to have ever carried astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, and it was the largest, most ...

Also taken at Stennis in 1967, this image shows the Saturn V first stage being hoisted onto the B-2 test stand. The first stage ran on 203,400 gallons of kerosene and liquid oxygen, the latter ...

This image, taken in 1967, shows the rocket’s second stage, known as S-II, being lifted onto the A-2 test stand at NASA’s Mississippi facility, now known as the Stennis Space Center. During launch, ...