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, ...

Apollo 11 went to the moon and back guided by a computer with 0.08% of the processing power of an iPhone 5s ... now you can read the code that drove the mission and try the simulator Did you know that ...

All this Moon landing nostalgia is wonderful and I’m enjoying every minute of it, especially We Choose The Moon and the CAPCOM and EAGLE Twitter accounts — anyway. If you’ve ever wondered whether you ...

Despite what everyone says about the power of modern devices, they’re nowhere near as capable as the landmark early NASA system. Without the computers on board the Apollo spacecraft, there would have ...

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 ...

(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 ...