Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the ship's computer became overloaded. Few were more nervous ...
Apollo 11's source code is now freely available to everyone on GitHub, and the manned moon landing project hides some quirky bits and pieces in its code. What surprises most when looking at the ...
Imagine that it’s the mid-1960s, and NASA has hired you to help put a man on the moon. Flying a spacecraft is incredibly complicated. If the trajectory is even one ...
When it comes to historic spacecraft, the Apollo 11 is a big one. With this in mind, the source code for Apollo 11’s guidance computer has been available online for years but now it’s available on ...
In a fun bit of software archaeology, former NASA intern Chris Garry uploaded the entire Apollo 11 flight guidance source code on GitHub. While the source code has been available for some time, its ...
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Elaine Denniston, possessing only a high school education, worked as a keypuncher at MIT's Instrumentation Lab during the Apollo program, inputting code onto punch cards from engineers' handwritten ...
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Imagine that it’s the mid-1960s, and NASA has hired you to help put a man on the moon. Flying a spacecraft is incredibly complicated. If the trajectory is even one ...