Artemis mission shares office space—and physics—with Apollo

As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge ...
Communications of the ACM

How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

To take humans back to the Moon, NASA has engineered a "fail-silent" architecture that handles everything from cosmic-ray bit ...

Space Exploration: The Ultimate Design And Engineering Challenge

Modern space exploration is driven as much by processors as it is by rockets. And it remains the ultimate test of our ...

NASA’s 1977 computers aboard Voyager are still working in interstellar space

Resurfaced footage released by YouTuber Gary Friedman shows some of the sturdy computing hardware that powered Voyager 1 and ...

From Mercury to Artemis: The evolution of mission control

Space missions can succeed or fail from the support they get from mission control. Here, we look at the changing shape of ...

What's changed between Apollo and Artemis - from reused rocket parts to shiny new toilets

Back in 1969, the astronauts from the first lunar landing - Apollo 11 - had to spend a week crammed into a converted ...
SFGate

Your smartphone is light years ahead of NASA computers that guided Apollo moon landings

MISSION MOON: Nearly 50 years have passed since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. The Houston Chronicle's special anniversary coverage explores how the ...