The first moon landing is still considered one of mankind's greatest achievements nearly half a century after Neil Armstrong took his first step off the Apollo 11 spacecraft. But it is perhaps even ...

In the final minutes of Apollo 11’s descent to the lunar surface, five 1201 and 1202 alarms blared in the lunar module. The computer was overloaded with data, and for a brief moment it looked like ...

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969, fulfilling President John F Kennedy’s goal of landing man on the Moon by the end of the Sixties. Apollo 11 was ...

Abstract: Six decades ago, the Apollo program ushered in the first integrated-circuit flight computer—the Apollo Guidance Computer—and gave rise to the term “software.” Today, computation permeates ...