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NASA working to resolve computer glitch, return Hubble Space Telescope to service

NASA is struggling to fix a computer glitch that has sidelined the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. While the problem is an uncomfortable reminder of the aging observatory's eventual mortality, ...
Scientific American

NASA’s Apollo moon missions relied on this computer scientist and differential equations

It’s July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are about to land on the moon. They will be the first humans to set foot ...
ZDNet

NASA is fixing a computer glitch on a giant telescope in space. That's just as hard as it sounds

After more than a month of testing and trying, NASA's engineers have finally diagnosed the source of an ongoing glitch on Hubble, the 31-year-old giant telescope that is currently orbiting in space ...
CNET

NASA preps 'more complex and riskier' Hubble Space Telescope fix

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

NASA’s ‘human computer’: Meet the woman who calculated the future of spaceflight without machines

Annie Easley began as a ‘human computer’, performing complex calculations by hand before electronic systems took over. She later became a programmer at NASA, contributing to propulsion and energy ...