The importance of computers in getting Neil Armstrong and his colleagues to the Moon and back to Earth cannot be underestimated. But the sort of technology available to Nasa in the early 1960s was ...

NASA's Apollo 11 computers helped land humans on the moon, but how does their computing power compare with the everyday ...

My father worked on an engineering team that designed the housing that held the components for the guidance computer onboard Apollo 11. Just this morning, I read an article looking back on the 50 ...

NASA needed a small and lightweight computer to send humans on their journey to the Moon and back, but computers of the day were made out of discrete components that were heavy, large, complicated, ...

The charger currently juicing up your MacBook Pro is probably more powerful than the Apollo 11's onboard computer that guided the first astronauts to the moon. "I think it is healthy to compare ...

(CBS) – On July 6, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off with its sight set on the moon. The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on ...

There are hundreds if not thousands of artifacts from the Apollo program scattered around the globe, some twisted wrecks at the bottom of the ocean, others lovingly preserved and sitting in museums or ...

When Apollo 13 Went Dark, a Mechanical Wrist watch Saved the Mission. After an explosion crippled their spacecraft, the crew ...