A spacecraft that pursued the extreme of being 'light, simple, and capable of returning even if a failure occurs'The Apollo ...

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...

Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team that developed Apollo's flight software. During the Apollo 11 landing, the system helped ...

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.

Click to open image viewer. This 16mm data acquisition camera (DAC) was used to document the undocking of the Apollo 11 lunar module from the command module and its landing on the Moon on July 20, ...

Margaret Hamilton, the 'software engineering' pioneer behind Apollo 11's flight software, has died aged 90, leaving a lasting ...

Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant scientist behind the Apollo 11 flight software, has died at age 90. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently announced her peaceful passing this week in ...

Apollo 11 - Landing on the Sea of Tranquility - July 20, 1969. 16mm landing film by Gary Neff, source footage courtesy John Knoll. Full description: http://history ...

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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 ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...