While it might not be as exciting as the Saturn V rocket itself, the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC ... paving the way for the desktop systems of the 1970’s. That said, the design and operation ...

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Core among them was the Apollo Guidance Computer ... humans had trusted the piloting a spacecraft or aircraft to a computer system. The AGC was designed by MIT, built by Raytheon, and it weighed ...

packaged in two six-rocket pods. The launcher, which is mounted on a stretched Bradley chassis, is a highly automated self-loading and self-aiming system. It contains a fire control computer that ...

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Once the rocket engines ... Space Museum Guidance System, Stellar-Inertial, XN-2 National Air and Space Museum Inertial Platform, Thor National Air and Space Museum Vacuum Radio Tube, R.H. Goddard ...