Commanded by Alan Shepard, the only original Mercury astronaut to make it to the Moon on an Apollo mission, Apollo 14 was a reflight of Apollo 13’s abandoned lunar landing plan. Accompanied by Lunar ...

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 ...

Seems like all the cool kids are rewriting legacy C programs in Rust these days, so we suppose it was only a matter of time before somebody decided to combine the memory-safe language with some of the ...

Five of the "Apollonauts" who developed the Apollo Guidance Computer — Dan Lickly, Jim Kernan , Peter Kachmar, Peter Volante and Hugh Blair-Smith — pose with a model of the moon at Draper Labs to mark ...

Fifty years ago, American astronauts walked the moon, completing an incredible mission that, if we're honest, was extremely unlikely to happen as soon as it did. And it was all possible because of ...

Less than three years after graduating from UMass Lowell with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Walter Dawson ’59 spotted a Boston Globe ad seeking engineers to work on NASA’s Apollo ...

Programmer Forrest Heller recently published a chart comparing the Apollo Guidance Computer used during NASA's Apollo 11 mission with three modern USB-C devices, including an ordinary Google Pixel ...

The Apollo 14 moon landing was made possible by last-minute reprogramming of the lunar module's computers. The onboard computers were able to take advantage of integrated circuits. The computer I used ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This an unflown but complete "Block I ...

Fifty years ago, second-run theater marquees heralded showings of “2001: A Space Odyssey” to stir the imagination of moviegoers on a cloudy summer day on July 20, 1969. But a real-life space adventure ...

When President John F. Kennedy stood in front of a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, proclaiming that the United States would put an American on the moon by the end of the decade, it was a ...