Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s ...

The first crewed lunar mission in more than a half-century brought back more than 800 gigabytes of data on colorful craters, ...

American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led development of the computer system used by NASA's Apollo lunar program, has ...

Planetary scientists have fresh Moon joy to explore. On 7 October, NASA released more than 800 gigabytes of images, audio recordings, written notes and other data gathered by the Artemis II astronauts ...

Gemini astronauts risked their lives to prove that spacewalking was possible.

The Apollo program famously went from Apollo 1 to Apollo 7, leaving what looks like a mysterious five-mission gap in one of the best-documented programs in history. In reality, the missing numbers are ...

Ken Shirriff's Apollo Guidance Computer ran bitcoin hashes at 10.3 seconds each. At 2026's hashrate it would need 13 million universe lifetimes.

The Pentagon is also investigating a photo from the mission showing three bright lights in a triangular formation above the lunar surface. These documents were part of a larger release of government ...

Declassified transcripts from two Apollo missions show astronauts repeatedly describing unexplained lights and objects while orbiting and walking on the moon. The Pentagon on Friday released ...

The Apollo 17 lunar crew once reported seeing unidentified, strange bright sparks in space that looked like “Fourth of July” fireworks, according to UFO files finally released by the Pentagon on ...

The Artemis II astronauts traveled 252,756 miles from Earth during a seven-hour lunar flyby. The crew experienced a 40-minute communications blackout while traveling around the far side of the moon.

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