[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 ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

“He was a great pilot. He will be missed.” William Anders, who attained the rank of major in the Air Force before the Apollo ...

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 ...

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 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." ...

By Apollo 11, he was the assistant flight controller in Mission Control. While the astronauts became American heroes for their bravery and pioneering spirit, it was the men and women in Mission ...