On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham ...

Explore October 11 in history, including Jayaprakash Narayan’s birth anniversary, NASA’s Apollo 7 launch, International Day of the Girl Child and major world events.

Margaret Hamilton, the visionary computer scientist whose pioneering code guided NASA’s Apollo missions to the moon and ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led the team designing the Apollo mission's guidance software, has died. Here's why she's considered a ...

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s ...

The scientist led the software engineering team at MIT during the Apollo program and was awarded the Presidential Medal of ...

Margaret Hamilton, an early computer pioneer whose software helped put the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon, has died at age ...

Neil Armstrong's inflight coverall jacket is up for sale in an Oct. 17 online charity auction, and a sale estimate ranges ...

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. and Autolomous announced the launch of Apollo Orchestrate?, a new capability within Charles River's Apollo® platform that connects and digitizes ...

On July 3rd, 1969, the Soviet Union's most powerful rocket collapsed onto its own launchpad in a near-nuclear explosion that shook the ground for miles. The cause was never truly solved, and the ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon ...

Not only can space permanently damage astronauts, but there are many bad ways to die in space that'll make you think twice about becoming one. Even then, getting struck by lightning two times within a ...