The SLS measures 322 (98.1-m) feet tall compared to the Saturn V's 363 feet (110.6-m). Most people present at LC-39's press building the evening before Artemis I's first launch attempt weren't ...

Both the Saturn V and SLS are, or were, in the case of the Saturn V, super heavy-lift launch vehicles designed to loft large payloads and human crews into orbit and set them on a course for the Moon.

Where the SLS does top the Saturn V is power. With the help of two upgraded solid rocket boosters, the SLS is 15% more powerful than the Saturn V, generating 8.8 million pounds of thrust at launch.

Later versions of the SLS could cap out at 365 feet, though, eclipsing the famed moon rocket. Where the SLS does top the Saturn V is launch thrust.

But now it’s time for NASA’s SLS rocket, which is currently sitting atop launchpad 39B (Saturn V took off from 39A) ahead of the Artemis 1 launch scheduled for August 29.

As NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket stands ready for its first test flight next week, the Artemis program prepares to follow in the footsteps of Apollo, which first carried humans to the ...

SLS is the cornerstone of Nasa’s Artemis program, Nasa’s 21st-century program to return humans to the Moon, and is in many ways a contemporary update of the Saturn V using newer technologies ...