Apollo 1 was supposed to be another step toward the Moon, but a cabin fire killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a ground test. The tragedy forced NASA to halt the crewed ...

Neil Armstrong's inflight coverall jacket is up for sale in an Oct. 17 online charity auction, and a sale estimate ranges from $800,000 to $1.2 million.

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

Since 1999, the world has celebrated World Space Week in early October, honoring science and technology and all things outer ...

Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential ...

Oct. 4-10 is World Space Week, created by the United Nations in 1999 to promote education, outreach on space science.

Hamilton was in her early thirties when she led the team of software engineers that powered NASA's Apollo missions. She later ...

Her work enabled NASA’s Apollo onboard computers to alert astronauts of problems.

Margaret Hamilton was born in Paoli, Indiana, in 1936, according to MIT, and studied at the University of Michigan before ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30.

Watkins, a geologist who worked with NASA's Mars rover Curiosity a decade ago, has made her second trip to the space station ...

Today, more than 80 countries have successfully placed satellites in orbit, while people from more than 50 countries have ...