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 ...

The Apollo 11 computer had a processor – an electronic circuit that performs operations on external data sources – which ran at 0.043 MHz. The latest iPhone’s processor is estimated to run at about ...

The charger currently juicing up your MacBook Pro is probably more powerful than the Apollo 11's onboard computer that guided the first astronauts to the moon. "I think it is healthy to compare ...

On board Apollo 11 was a computer called the Apollo Guidance Computer. It had 2048 words of memory which could be used to store “temporary results” – data that is lost when there is no power.

The Apollo 11 crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on board: the Apollo Guidance Computer.

Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the ship's computer became overloaded. Few were more nervous ...

Apollo 11: Mission Out of Control The inside story of how Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin struggled to touch down on the moon, while their guidance computer kept crashing.

Editor's Note: This article is part of a series reflecting on the Apollo 11 mission, 50 years later. Without the computers on board the Apollo spacecraft, there would have been no moon landing, no ...

The code for the Apollo 11 mission contains references to pinball and the Black Power movement.

The politics of the day, the urgency of the era, the quest for knowledge all made the Apollo 11 mission possible and a math and science bonanza.

The Apollo 11 computer had a processor – an electronic circuit that performs operations on external data sources – which ran at 0.043 MHz. The latest iPhone’s processor is estimated to run at about ...