Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the ship's computer became overloaded. Few were more nervous ...

Elaine Denniston, possessing only a high school education, worked as a keypuncher at MIT's Instrumentation Lab during the Apollo program, inputting code onto punch cards from engineers' handwritten ...

The Apollo 14 moon landing was made possible by last-minute reprogramming of the lunar module's computers. The onboard computers were able to take advantage of integrated circuits. The computer I used ...

Despite what everyone says about the power of modern devices, they’re nowhere near as capable as the landmark early NASA system. Without the computers on board the Apollo spacecraft, there would have ...

Programmer Forrest Heller recently published a chart comparing the Apollo Guidance Computer used during NASA's Apollo 11 mission with three modern USB-C devices, including an ordinary Google Pixel ...