The fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission – the flight that first took man to the surface of the moon — is coming up. By the time this post is published, some YouTube channel will invariably ...

This article is provided courtesy of Gadget.co.za. A Tshwane computer engineer has tracked down one of the great treasures of the computer age – the first space flight guidance computer. It’s not ...

The Apollo induction computer, developed at the MIT Institute of Instrumental Engineering (now Charles Stark Draper Research Institute) in the 1960s, played an important role in the Apollo project, ...

Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who was pivotal in humans first landing on the Moon, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom this week, honoring her pioneering work. The rest of this ...

(CBS) – On July 6, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off with its sight set on the moon. The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on ...

Fly me to the Moon, and let me... charge... among the stars Fly me to the Moon, and let me... charge... among the stars is a reporter with five years of experience ...

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