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Peter Volante Employee Card
Photograph and employee card of Peter Volante. Image courtesy: Draper ...More

Bill Robertson Employee Card
Photograph and employee card of William Robertson. Image courtesy: Draper ...More

Maxime Faget
Portrait of Maxime A. Faget, who was Director of Engineering and Development ...More

Apollo 11 Plaque On the Moon
Pictures of the plaque mounted behind the ladder on the west strut of the Lunar ...More

Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong During Lunar Eva
The only good Hasselblad picture of Armstrong on the lunar surface. Neil is ...More

Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong in Lunar Module
Buzz Aldrin took this picture of Neil Armstrong in the LM cabin after the completion ...More

Apollo 11 Astronauts On Lunar Surface
This frame from the 16-mm camera mounted in the LM window shows Neil (left) ...More

Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong In Command Module
Neil Armstrong in the Lower Equipment Bay of the Command Module. Note the sextant/optical ...More

Albert Hopkins In MIT Film
Albert Hopkins appearing in MIT film "Computer for Apollo," talking ...More

Ramon Alonso as seen in MIT Film about Apollo Guidance Computer
Ramon Alonso as seen in MIT Film "Computer for Apollo" explaining ...More

Ramon Alonso with Apollo Guidance Computer in MIT Film
Ramon Alonso as seen in MIT Film "Computer for Apollo" explaining ...More

Eldon Hall As Seen In MIT Film About Apollo Guidance Computer
Eldon Hall as seen in MIT Film about the Apollo Guidance Computer built for ...More

MIT Science Reporter — Ramon Alonso (1965)
Archival footage of Ramon Alonso on NASA's Science Reporter program explaining ...More

Space Gloves & The DSKY
With bulky gloves to protect astronauts from the dangers of space, a new interface ...More

Martian Probes
Before Apollo, engineers at Draper were using guidance technology to build a ...More

The Computer That Could
The technology behind the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was revolutionary in ...More

MIT Science Reporter — Eldon Hall (1965)
Archival footage of Eldon Hall on NASA's Science Reporter program explaining ...More

Margaret Hamilton on Software Engineering
Draper engineer Margaret Hamilton talks about the origins of software engineering ...More

Apollo 11 Landing (1202 alarm)
The Apollo 11 moon landing went off without a hitch! Well, almost. ...More

Apollo 8
A brief overview of the Apollo 8 mission. ...More

1202 Alarm
When the Apollo Guidance Computer became overwhelmed during Apollo 11's ...More

Doc Draper's Legacy
With his many achievements, Charles Stark Draper left a lasting legacy on engineering ...More

The Fab Four
America's first moon landing can be traced back to four brilliant minds: ...More

From Gunsights to the Moon
The birth of inertial guidance began with Charles Stark Draper experimenting ...More

Space Race
The Space Race began with the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik and ...More