To overcome the Earth’s orbital gravity, NASA required a rocket 100 times more powerful than the Mercury boosters that launched the first American astronaut into orbit in 1961. The three-stage Saturn ...

Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

A Jan. 25 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of the front page of The Washington Post announcing that the Apollo 11 mission had successfully landed on the moon. The Post's story, ...

On July 24, the country celebrates the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar mission; perhaps the most significant technological triumph in American history. You don’t need to be a senior ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

When NASA concluded its three-year search in 2009, the original Apollo 11 telemetry tapes were likely gone forever, erased and reused for satellite data. What no one expected was that the closest ...

A photographer who was “rummaging” through the NASA archives stumbled across an amazing earthrise timelapse taken by the crew of Apollo 11 and then dubbed the audio of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The broken circuit breaker switch that nearly ended Apollo 11 (below) and the pen that saved the crew and the mission. Several ...

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At MIT, Margaret Hamilton led the development of the Apollo onboard software and established software development as an independent engineering discipline.

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient ...