NASA, Margaret Hamilton and Apollo
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NASA chiefs said Margaret Hamilton 'helped make Apollo and humanity’s first journeys to the Moon possible' after the female software engineering pioneer died aged 90
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The Apollo 11 footage NASA called gone forever, until a surplus auction changed everything
When NASA concluded the original Apollo 11 moon landing tapes had been erased and recycled, the story seemed closed. Then three reels surfaced from a government surplus sale, bought decades earlier for $218 and nearly sold off for scrap.
Neil Armstrong's inflight coverall jacket is up for sale in an Oct. 17 online charity auction, and a sale estimate ranges from $800,000 to $1.2 million.
Lunar lava tube investigation GIMLI, selected by NASA on October 1, 2026, will send ground-penetrating radar, seismic equipment, and a gravimeter to Marius Hills Pit -- the first intentional seismic survey on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 -- to confirm whether a vast underground cave could shelter future Moon Base crews.