Apollo program is the first manned space flight program for the moon promoted by the United States. Computer historian Ken Siriff has released an image for obtaining the pre-modulation processor (PMP) ...

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This year, one of the most important artifacts of the Space Age, the Columbia command module of the Apollo 11 mission, will leave its home at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space ...

This collection consists of approximately 0.36 cubic feet of material relating to the Apollo Lunar Module (LEM, LM) and other programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The ...

When first proposed in 1959, the spacecraft that would eventually become known as the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) was envisioned as a three-man Earth-orbital vehicle upgradable to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, ...

Note the calendar visible just to the left of John Harasaki, who was given the job of removing essential items during the Apollo 11's quarantine period. Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum ...

Apollo 9 was an Earth-orbiting mission that tested out the Apollo lunar module for the first time. The lunar module was designed to bring astronauts to the surface of the moon and NASA wanted to ...

A flight manual from the Apollo 11 lunar module could fetch up to $9 million when it goes on sale next week as part of an auction marking the moon landing’s 50th anniversary. The letter-sized document ...