Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA’s crewed Apollo ...
Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service ...
Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30.
Apollo flight directors, a Star Trek legend and a VR trip to orbit are all landing at JFK's TWA Hotel this month.
Remembering Margaret Hamilton, a software engineering giant on the Apollo missions, and considering how numbers change over ...
Your invitation to revisit the Space Age has arrived.Whether you miss the days when people got dressed up to fly or wish your ...
Margaret Hamilton’s death on September 30 marks the close of a career that helped turn the dream of lunar exploration into a technical reality. The computer scientist, who died at a hospital in ...
Did you know Seattle’s Museum of Flight features an entire exhibit dedicated to Project Apollo? Some of those missions paved the way for the Artemis II mission launch that is set for today. Ted ...
On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham ...
You know, if you think about it, and trust me we're about to, the moon is kind of weird. Of all the terrestrial worlds of the solar system, we're the only one with a substantial natural satellite.
Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...
Neil Armstrong almost made a mistake. He had found an interesting rock sticking out of a formation. Curious to see what the rock was made of, he needed to examine its interior more closely. So he ...