British start-up, Apollo Instruments, has meticulously recreated the computer from NASA's 1960s Apollo spacecraft in miniature with its DSKY Moonwatch. The multifunctional timepiece pays homage to the ...

The computer interface of NASA's 1960s Apollo spacecraft is meticulously replicated in miniature in the DSKY Moonwatch, a multifunctional timepiece created by British start-up Apollo Instruments. The ...

The Apollo programme pushed space and computing technology to its limit. Cutting edge at the time, some of the tech used seems alarmingly simple today. 74: Memory (ROM) of Apollo guidance computer, in ...

The first moon landing is still considered one of mankind's greatest achievements nearly half a century after Neil Armstrong took his first step off the Apollo 11 spacecraft. But it is perhaps even ...

NASA landed the first humans on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. The historic Moon landing consisted of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.

Unsung heroes helped mankind achieve the impossible, they developed the technology behind the first moon landing and the data to support the success of the Apollo 11 mission, while some of NASA’s ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...

In 1969, the three Apollo 11 astronauts — Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin — blasted off from Cape Canaveral Florida atop a massive Saturn V rocket, ensconced in the capsule-shaped ...

It’s a great pub quiz question. What’s the fastest human beings have ever travelled? And what were they travelling in when they did it? No it’s not Lewis Hamilton in a 200mph Mercedes Formula 1 car.