What ‘Apollo 13’ Got Right—and Wrong—About One of NASA’s Most Dramatic Missions

The famed Apollo 13 rescue has been the focus of several movies, including a 2024 Netflix documentary. Not all the films have told an accurate tale.

Ohio native Neil Armstrong was an icon for humanity and a man of great humility

If you were old enough to form memories, you probably still remember huddling around a vacuum-tube television or a radio that ...
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Flight Command Soars, First U.S. Winner for Flightline

Flight Command became the first American winner for Flightline in romping by 10 lengths in front-running fashion in the fifth ...
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How a cockpit command canceled itself out before fatal Rafale collision

France’s State aviation safety investigation bureau (BEA-É) has traced the August 2024 mid-air collision that killed two Rafale pilots to a “dual input” in the cockpit, where a trainee and his ...

First look at the Space Shuttle Endeavor in its new L.A. home

People got their first look on Wednesday, June 24 at the space shuttle Endeavour in its new home at the California Science Center in Exposition Park, in full upright launch position with solid rocket ...
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On July 20, 1969, as Apollo 11 descended toward the Sea of Tranquility, Margaret Hamilton's software survived five alarms in four minutes because her team had buil…

The Apollo Guidance Computer overloaded five times during Eagle's descent on July 20, 1969. Margaret Hamilton's team had ...
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Alabama Has The Largest Space Museum In The World And Most People Don’t Know It

So there you have it: the world’s largest space museum is right here in Alabama, waiting to blow your mind with rockets, spacecraft, and the inspiring story of human space exploration.
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The software that landed Apollo 11 on the moon is now free online

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original ...
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This day in 1970: How Apollo 13 turned a lunar mission into a legendary survival story

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a mission lasting nearly 10 ...
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Apollo 13 Set The Record Artemis II Just Broke, But That Wasn’t The Plan

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is ...
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Margaret Hamilton: The woman whose handwritten Apollo code is driving Artemis II and taking humans back to the Moon

Margaret Hamilton supervised a division at MIT called the Software Engineering Division, which designed flight software used in NASA’s Apollo missions. As NASA describes, “Margaret’s work in flight ...
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Artemis 2 is most similar to Apollo 8. What the missions had in common

Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...