CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 between Apollo and NASA’s ...

NASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft set for the Artemis 2 mission is seen on Launch Complex 39B at sunrise at the Kennedy Space Center, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

The FLEX Rover will be equipped to carry two astronauts and traverse hundreds of miles of lunar terrain.

Silicon Valley, its visionaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and the entire tech revolution may not have happened without the Cold War space race. President John F. Kennedy’s iconic 1962 speech, directing the United States to put boots on the moon ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla – Before the rockets. Before the moon landings. There were the names. NASA’s most famous lunar program, Apollo, was named after the Greek god of the sun — a symbol of light, knowledge and exploration. It was a bold choice in ...

The computer that guided astronauts to the moon and back operated with roughly 2,048 words of erasable memory and 36,864 words of fixed memory, running at a clock speed near 2 MHz. A smartphone released in the past few years can execute billions of operations per second while simultaneously streaming video,