Nasa’s Apollo-Soyuz pocket calculator reached the Smithsonian 37 years after its 1975 mission

The Apollo-Soyuz mission featured a remarkable pocket-sized Hewlett-Packard calculator, designed to serve as a safeguard for critical navigational calculations. Now housed at the Smithsonian's ...

In 1975, NASA sent a pocket calculator on Apollo-Soyuz as a backup if its main computer failed; 37 years later, it ended up at the Smithsonian

NASA utilized an HP-65 calculator as a crucial backup system during the Apollo-Soyuz mission. This programmable device ...
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During Apollo, NASA fired grenades and crashed abandoned spacecraft into the moon, measuring the tremors to investigate its hidden interior

It was from late 1969 through the early-to-mid 1970s that NASA purposefully went around causing explosions on the surface of the Moon. Not because of fun and games, but to get information. As reported ...

In 1976, a former NASA intern paid $217 for 1,150 old tapes; 43 years later, 3 Apollo 11 recordings from the lot sold for $1.82 million

In 1976, a former NASA intern spent just $217 on 1,150 old tapes. At the time, they looked like forgotten pieces of history, with little reason to expect anything extraordinary. Then, 43 years later, ...
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Apollo's impatient old-timers are rooting for NASA's return to the moon with Artemis II launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back. They just wish these Artemis moonshots had happened ...
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Apollo vs. Artemis: What to know about NASA's return to the moon

NASA's Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time.As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity's first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons ...
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What ‘Apollo 13’ Got Right—and Wrong—About One of NASA’s Most Dramatic Missions

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Apollo 13 space mission in April 1970 riveted the public as NASA successfully saved the three astronauts onboard after a ...

Astronaut Donn Eisele went from Columbus' West Side to piloting Apollo 7

Columbus-born astronaut Donn Eisele was key to the Apollo 7 flight crew, but mission tensions and personal struggles made him ...
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Apollo vs. Artemis: What to know about Nasa moon mission as launch date nears

As four astronauts get ready to blast off on humanity's first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA's new Artemis program are inevitable. The world's first ...