On 20 July 1969, the world watched as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin attempted the most dangerous landing ever attempted by humans. After traveling 240,000 miles from Earth, their lunar module “Eagle” began its descent toward the Moon’s surface.

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Ralph Longfellow, the lead project engineer for the Apollo 11 lunar landing radar, shares his perspective on the historic 1969 mission and the future of space exploration. CORONADO, Calif. (KGTV) — A Coronado space engineer who played a critical role in ...

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original flight software is now freely available on GitHub.

Apollo astronauts described lights "sailing off into space" and skies like the "Fourth of July" in newly declassified Pentagon UFO transcripts.