The engineers had to design a rocket with enough power to send the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. The details of the lunar flight plan had to be worked out. Software for computers aboard the ...

(AP) — Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the ... was another reason NASA changed the plan: the agency wanted to beat the Russians.

who served as command module pilot during Apollo 7, the inaugural test flight. In Chicago, we interviewed the legendary Jim Lovell, who orbited the Moon in 1968 on the audacious flight of Apollo 8 ...

[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into ... After [Fran] took a flight-ready LVDC spare to the dentist ...

Apollo performed a mid-flight turn to dock with the Lunar Module, which was carried into space behind the Command Module, before turning again and heading for the Moon. In the pre-digital age ...