First moon landing still amazes the world today, a powerful example of American exceptionalism

Man first stepped first on the moon with the historic NASA Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. The incredible feat of human ...
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NASA planned a one-man Saturn V mission to rescue astronauts from the Moon

In 1965, North American Aviation studied an emergency mission for astronauts stranded near the Moon. A spare Saturn V would ...

Is an iPhone actually more powerful than NASA's Apollo 11 computers?

Year after year technology improves, and with the most powerful phones the public has ever had, it makes one wonder if Apollo ...
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Supercon 2023: Restoring The Apollo Guidance Computer

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...
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Remembering Ken Mattingly, forever an Apollo hero

Last week’s passing of Ken Mattingly, aged 87, reduces the number of men still alive to tell tales of orbiting the Moon to eight. An intrepid lunar voyager and space shuttle commander, Mattingly was ...