This is the story of the Apollo Guidance Computer that helped the Apollo astronauts safely navigate to the Moon. It was a computer that was so advanced that the engineers who created it said they ...

Documenting the other computer used in every Apollo launch is an impressive feat on its own, and reverse engineering it from actual hardware, well, we can’t think of anything cooler.

NASA administrators originally specified that the Apollo flight computer would use the larger core transistors.

Still, the impact of the AGC – or Apollo Guidance Computer – dwarfs everything else on that inventory. Apollo's flight computer weighed about 70 pounds and was two feet long, one foot wide.

The Apollo programme took humanity to the Moon but also changed the face of technology back here on Earth.

Apollo 11 took off for the moon this week in 1969. To prepare the astronauts, Nasa put them through gruelling, relentless simulations – and BBC Tomorrow's World paid a visit.

Revisiting the heart-stopping moments before Apollo 11 landed on the moon with the world watching There were tears and cheers as Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took their steps.

British start-up, Apollo Instruments, has meticulously recreated the computer from NASA's 1960 s Apollo spacecraft in miniature with its DSKY Moonwatch. Manufactured in England, the DSKY Moonwatch ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's flight jacket, which he wore on the historic mission to the moon in 1969, was sold for about $2.8 million in New York, auction house Sotheby's said.