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A modern smartphone holds more computing power than all of NASA’s Apollo program
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,
Before etching their names in spaceflight history, the four Artemis II astronauts received some posthumous words of encouragement from one of NASA's greats. Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the ...
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NASA Artemis crew breaks Apollo record; astronauts break down in tears after special request from space
In a defining moment for modern space exploration, astronauts from NASA have surpassed a long-standing record set during the Apollo Program, reaching the farthest distance ever traveled by humans from Earth at exactly 1:57 p.m. The milestone marks a ...
Lunar love knows no bounds. Now hurtling home from the moon, the Artemis II astronauts took a poignant page from Apollo 8 earlier this week, proposing deeply personal names for a pair of lunar craters. Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew asked permission ...
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April 1 marked a historic day with the launch of Artemis II. Although the crew did not land on the lunar surface, the mission represented humanity’s return to the Moon’s vicinity for the first time in more than 50 years.