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How a retired NASA employee's father saved Apollo 11 footage from a government surplus auction
When NASA concluded its three-year search in 2009, the original Apollo 11 telemetry tapes were likely gone forever, erased and reused for satellite data. What no one expected was that the closest ...
To overcome the Earth’s orbital gravity, NASA required a rocket 100 times more powerful than the Mercury boosters that launched the first American astronaut into orbit in 1961. The three-stage Saturn ...
Author Charles Fishman discusses how critical parts of the Apollo program relied on handcrafted materials – even the computers! Congress declares new nation’s capital shall rise along the Potomac ...
Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient ...
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