A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...

What no one on board Yankee Clipper or at Mission Control knew was that lightning had struck Apollo 12, scrambling the rocket's instruments. A second strike twenty seconds later knocked many of ...

Now you can take a rather thrilling ride to see Don’s code in action. Below is an annotated video of the Apollo 12 landing, in real-time. It’s worth setting aside a quarter-hour to check it out.

However, Apollo 12 almost became a disaster which — after ... there were minor problems with environmental controls and the rocket’s control system. More seriously, the lunar module had ...

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The astronauts were strapped into bench-like "couches" during launch and landing in the Command Module, which measured 3.9m ... the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo towards ...

At 12:30 EDT on the dot ... orbit checkout of the lunar module’s radar and guidance systems, the Apollo 11 rocket and spacecraft will complete just under two months of pad processing operations ...

On February 6, SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket system in the world ... "It ranks up there with the first Apollo mission. This is a pretty amazing thing ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully launched a mission carrying a billionaire astronaut further from Earth than any human has ...