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 ...

On January 27, 1967, NASA Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a cabin ...

Hamilton's team wrote the software that kept Apollo 11's Moon landing going when its computer overloaded. She died on ...

A piece of space history is about to change hands. Neil Armstrong’s in-flight coveralls - the suit he wore while training for ...

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

The U.S. Coast Guard’s first purpose-built aircraft, NASA’s Odyssey probe reaches Mars and Lockheed Martin receives F-35 ...

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.

We all know the names Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Their faces are permanently tied to one of the most extraordinary moments in human history — the first time people walked on the moon. But ... The ...

Twenty-one months after the deaths of the Apollo 1 crew in a fire during a test on the launchpad, the three men who had originally served as their backup crew — Walter Schirra Jr., Donn Eisele, and ...

Hamilton was in her early thirties when she led the team of software engineers that powered NASA's Apollo missions. She later ...

Last week, I unraveled the history of chocolate overseas.While writing that, I suddenly realized something important."When ...