Scheduled to launch in early 2026, NASA's Artemis 2 is part of the bold 21st-century vision for returning astronauts to the ...

The guidance system was developed by MIT's Instrumentation Lab, now an independent company known as the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. An important part of the guidance system was the Apollo ...

The modern smartphone is exponentially more powerful than the guidance computer used during the Apollo moon landings—proof of how quickly technology can reshape our world. For decades, Moore’s Law has ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday signed an executive order creating a federal “Genesis mission” to support US dominance in artificial intelligence — with officials comparing it to the Apollo ...

Washington — President Trump on Monday signed an executive order meant to accelerate scientific discovery through the use of artificial intelligence, directing the Energy Department and its national ...

That's one small step for a man. One very expensive leap for the United States. Okay, sure, some would argue focusing on the total cost of the Apollo program defeats the purpose. Stepping onto the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently finalized its guidance document, Computer Software Assurance for Production and Quality System Software, for software used in device production and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

The Block II Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC, operated on all crewed Apollo flights from Apollo 7 in 1968 through Apollo 17 in 1972. The Apollo Guidance Computer’s (AGC) main casing (left) and the ...

Abstract: Six decades ago, the Apollo program ushered in the first integrated-circuit flight computer—the Apollo Guidance Computer—and gave rise to the term “software.” Today, computation permeates ...