Remembering Margaret Hamilton, a software engineering giant on the Apollo missions, and considering how numbers change over ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30.

Apollo 1 was supposed to be another step toward the Moon, but a cabin fire killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger ...

On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham ...

Margaret Hamilton’s death on September 30 marks the close of a career that helped turn the dream of lunar exploration into a technical reality. The computer scientist, who died at a hospital in ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you know Seattle’s Museum of Flight features an entire exhibit dedicated to Project Apollo? Some of those missions paved the ...

On July 20, 1969, Queens University of Charlotte alumna Rosie Graham ’67 watched with bated breath as NASA astronauts walked ...

You know, if you think about it, and trust me we're about to, the moon is kind of weird. Of all the terrestrial worlds of the solar system, we're the only one with a substantial natural satellite.

NASA chiefs said Margaret Hamilton 'helped make Apollo and humanity’s first journeys to the Moon possible' after the female ...

Neil Armstrong almost made a mistake. He had found an interesting rock sticking out of a formation. Curious to see what the rock was made of, he needed to examine its interior more closely. So he ...