Apollo, Margaret Hamilton and Moon
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July 1969 changed humanity’s understanding of what was possible. When Apollo 11 reached the lunar surface, millions of people around the world watched the event unfold on television. For the first time,
Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon missions,
Neil Armstrong's inflight coverall jacket is up for sale in an Oct. 17 online charity auction, and a sale estimate ranges from $800,000 to $1.2 million.
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The Apollo 11 footage NASA called gone forever, until a surplus auction changed everything
When NASA concluded the original Apollo 11 moon landing tapes had been erased and recycled, the story seemed closed. Then three reels surfaced from a government surplus sale, bought decades earlier for $218 and nearly sold off for scrap.