[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into orbit and onwards towards the moon – for a while now. Even though she’s ...
One of our favorite retro hardware enthusiasts, [CuriousMarc], is back with the outstanding tale of preserving Apollo Program software, and building a core rope reader from scratch to do it. We’ve ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Dozens of consignors auctioned off ...
Long before NASA reached the moon, the U.S. civilian space agency's managers and engineers began to look at ways of using Apollo lunar hardware in non-lunar and advanced lunar missions. In April 1963, ...
For many space planners in the early 1960s, piloted Solar System exploration using large "post-Saturn" rockets and new-design nuclear-powered spaceships seemed a natural follow-on to the Apollo lunar ...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions’ lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon’s ...
With today's inauguration, President Donald Trump is back in charge of the Artemis program. NASA's 21st-century moon program began during Trump's first term but has been plagued with developmental ...
Everyone knows Apollo is just awesomely cool, right? Not the Greek god, even though he is the god of archery, but NASA's moon landing missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It's so cool that one ...
Since Gene Cernan stepped back into the Apollo 17 lander in 1972, no human being has set foot on the moon again. On the windless lunar world, the Apollo astronauts' footsteps still remain, waiting for ...