The Mission Control feature in OS X is convenient, but without exploring a few of its options it's easy to get stuck using only one or two of its behaviors. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an ...

OS X Lion is now available through the Mac App Store. The new OS brings with it a slew of new features. One of those features is called Mission Control. Follow along as we explain what Mission Control ...

Exactly 50 years ago, on July 16, 1969, NASA staff in the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center celebrated as Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins ...

My dad once told me there are features you can live without, that is, until you use them, at which point there’s no going back. He was referring to the rear window defroster on a 1979 Pontiac Grand ...

After retiring from NASA in 1994, Gene Kranz remembers taking tours through the historic Mission Operations Control Room at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kranz was the flight director during the ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, which is coming up on July 20, NASA has restored and re-opened the original Apollo Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The ...

An engineering model of CubeRover sits on a table as Astrobotic’s Mike Provenzano (right) discusses the partnership with Mission Control at an April 8 briefing with Mission Control’s Ewan Reid (left) ...

The Apollo Mission Control Center once buzzed with excitement as flight controllers communicated with the first astronauts to orbit the Earth, land on the moon and pilot shuttles. It’s where dedicated ...

Five decades ago today, NASA's Mission Control Center came online for the first time. Better known by its radio call sign "Houston" (for the city it calls home), it was designed from the start to put ...

Split view on the iPad is amazing. Two apps, side-by-side, open up all kinds of neat shortcuts. You can drag text, links, and pictures from Safari into notes apps, emails, Pages documents and so on.

Holly Ridings had spent about a week being the first-ever female chief flight director at NASA when she sat down in a Johnson Space Center conference room and reflected on her career, each milestone ...

In his first feature as director, longtime editor David Fairhead continues to explore America's missions to the Moon in 'Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo.' By THR Staff You can feel the ...