Introduction]The beautiful moon floating in the night sky. Have you ever dreamed of visiting that place?More than half a century ago, humanity turned that dream into reality. Its name was "The 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 ...

NASA's Apollo program transformed a series of experimental rocket launches into six successful crewed Moon landings, ...

By William E. Halal, PhD During my career as a major in the US Air Force, an aerospace engineer on the Apollo Project, and ...

The Space Race was a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and American astronauts.

Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a series of tests with the lunar lander. What it lacked in glory it made up for in technological contributions. By Kenneth ...

The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful ...

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. By Trip Gabriel Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a ...