NASA needed a small and lightweight computer to send humans on their journey to the Moon and back, but computers of the day were made out of discrete components that were heavy, large, complicated, ...

Margaret Hamilton, an early computer pioneer whose software helped put the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon, has died at age 90. Mrs Hamilton is most well-known for developing the Apollo Guidance ...

On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission, the AS-202 was ...

An open-source replica recreates the Apollo astronauts’ keypad and display using a Raspberry Pi, microcontrollers and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This collection consists of reports, ...

A MAN may have been first on the moon – but it was actually a woman who put him there. Trailblazer Margaret Hamilton led the team that developed on-board software used in Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...

Margaret Heafield was born in 1936 in Paoli, Indiana, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a professor. She grew up in the ...

To celebrate the recent 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, you can play a brand new game for the computer that put humans on the Moon, courtesy of programmer David Given. That is, if you can ...

Margaret Hamilton, who has died aged 90, wrote the software code that helped to land Nasa’s Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon ...

Some people change the world with technology. Some people use technology to change the world. And some people find ways to mine Bitcoin on really, really, really old computers. Ancient Computer ...

Pioneering software engineer whose work was critical to the Apollo moon landings ...