NASA flight director, Gene Kranz, now 91 years old, is seen posing with his lifetime achievement award from the American ...

[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 ...

Apollo 1’s backup crew was immediately called up for Apollo 7. (Originally the two flights were called AS-204 and AS-205. The former was renamed Apollo 1 after the fire; Apollo missions 2 ...

Here’s how it works. Click unmute on the video above hear mission audio from Flight Day 4 - Moon Landing Day - of the Apollo 11 mission and listen to over 50 minutes of audio in the video from ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 explosion, the NASA astronauts and Mission Control flight directors involved shared their thoughts and lessons learned in a new NASA documentary and podcast.

Said Flight Director Chris Kraft, “I don’t know how I survived it.” If not for the accident, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee would likely have gone to the moon.

The Apollo Guidance Computer is one of the unsung successes of the Space Race. This is probably because it was so phenomenally successful, having had very few in-flight problems – and most of ...

And flights in support of Apollo’s lunar goal were well underway by this point. Tests of the Saturn I rocket and flights of boilerplate Apollo Command Modules (CSM) had begun in 1961.