The first moon landing is still considered one of mankind's greatest achievements nearly half a century after Neil Armstrong took his first step off the Apollo 11 spacecraft. But it is perhaps even ...

Seems like all the cool kids are rewriting legacy C programs in Rust these days, so we suppose it was only a matter of time before somebody decided to combine the memory-safe language with some of the ...

The computer that guided man to the moon half a century ago was bulkier and far less powerful than the smartphone you’re sending snaps on today. But the Apollo Guidance Computer was a groundbreaking ...

(CBS) – On July 6, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off with its sight set on the moon. The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on ...

The Apollo induction computer, developed at the MIT Institute of Instrumental Engineering (now Charles Stark Draper Research Institute) in the 1960s, played an important role in the Apollo project, ...

While it might not be as exciting as the Saturn V rocket itself, the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was one of the most important developments of the entire Apollo program. While comically ...

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 ...

Among the many technological breakthroughs of NASA's Apollo project to land a man on the Moon was the Apollo Guidance Computer that flew onboard Apollo spacecraft. In an era when most computers were ...

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