Click to open image viewer. As part of the Apollo program, a number of so-called "boilerplate" (BP) command modules were constructed to undergo various tests and to serve as training vehicles for ...

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, who led software engineering for Apollo computer systems at MIT, has died in the United States at age 90, ...

The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

Astronomers believe they have found the famous lunar module from the Apollo 10 mission five decades after it was released into space by the crew. The module, measuring just four metres wide, was ...

At MIT, Margaret Hamilton led the development of the Apollo onboard software and established software development as an ...