To take humans back to the Moon, NASA has engineered a "fail-silent" architecture that handles everything from cosmic-ray bit ...
As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge ...
In the five decades since the end of the Apollo program, much has changed in astronautics. The differences between the Apollo ...
Modern space exploration is driven as much by processors as it is by rockets. And it remains the ultimate test of our ...
Back in 1969, the astronauts from the first lunar landing - Apollo 11 - had to spend a week crammed into a converted ...
MISSION MOON: Nearly 50 years have passed since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. The Houston Chronicle's special anniversary coverage explores how the ...