The flight computer aboard the space shuttle has less than one percent of the power of an Xbox 360 game console. Astronauts load programs directing the phases of a mission - liftoff, orbit ...

The space shuttle carries five onboard computers for redundancy, with one always designated as a backup. The four other computers work together to make up the orbiter's primary computer systems ...

STS-43 astronaut James Adamnson uses a Mac Portable computer on Space Shuttle Atlantis in August 1991. The First Laptop in Space. Astronauts have been using external computing and calculating ...

The glitch is affecting the backup computer controller on Discovery'sMain Engine No. 3, but further details have not yet been released. During the shuttle's main engine checkouts, the backup ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The pilots on NASA's last space shuttle flight fixed another one of their main computers Friday after it failed and set off an alarm that shattered their sleep. NASA ...

Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences has received one of the NASA Space Shuttle’s on-board general purpose computers (AP-101S GPC).

In this handout from NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope is grappled to Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-125 by the shuttle's Canadian-built remote manipulator system May 13, 2009 in Space.

NASA updates on shuttle mission. In a bit of space trivia, Drew became the world's 200th spacewalker when he emerged from the 220-mile-high complex. The first was Soviet cosmonaut Alexi Leonov in ...

The space shuttle carries five onboard computers for redundancy, with one always designated as a backup. The four other computers work together to make up the orbiter's primary computer systems ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The pilots on NASA's last space shuttle flight fixed another one of their main computers Friday after it failed and set off an alarm that shattered their sleep. NASA ...