After an oxygen tank explosion crippled Apollo 13 during its 1970 mission to the Moon, astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert ...

While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon, Collins was left alone in the Columbia command module. He later ...

Margaret Hamilton, who has died aged 90, wrote the software code that helped to land Nasa’s Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon on July 20 1969 and see them returned safely to Earth four days later.

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 ...

Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon ...

Click to open image viewer. This Command Module Simulator was used at Kennedy Space Center to train the Apollo astronauts. It was used in conjunction with the Lunar Module Simulator. The simulated ...