[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into orbit and onwards towards the moon – for a while now. Even though ...

The wonderfully imperfect collection provides an entirely new perspective on the flights we thought we knew. listen Apollo VII was the first test drive of the Apollo spacecraft, limited to Earth ...

During the flight test, NASA had the capsule dip in ... Twenty-four astronauts flew to the moon during NASA's vaulted Apollo program, with 12 landing on it. The final bootprints in the lunar ...

Former Apollo 8 astronaut William "Bill" Anders has ... Anders, who served as the lunar module pilot for the historic flight, captured the first color image of Earth from space on Dec. 24, 1968 ...

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same ...

“He was a great pilot. He will be missed.” William Anders, who attained the rank of major in the Air Force before the Apollo flight, was piloting the plane that crashed on Friday, according to ...

And Flight is God." Astronaut Jim Lovell, who experienced nearly catastrophic problems on Apollo 13, put it another way: "the pilots ... were at the center of [any] problem. ... Next in line were ...

Apollo performed a mid-flight turn to dock with the Lunar Module, which was carried into space behind the Command Module, before turning again and heading for the Moon. In the pre-digital age ...

who served as command module pilot during Apollo 7, the inaugural test flight. In Chicago, we interviewed the legendary Jim Lovell, who orbited the Moon in 1968 on the audacious flight of Apollo 8 ...

During Apollo 8, Capcom Mike Collins relayed news and sports scores to the astronauts during their flight, including one that had been played weeks earlier: "Navy, fourteen; Army, twenty-one." ...