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Decoding Rediscovered Rope Memory From The Apollo Guidance Computer
On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...
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Unseen Apollo
The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar ... after an explosion disabled their command module. In the middle of the instrument panel a label that reads “lunar contact ...
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The Apollo Missions
John Young piloted the command module. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remembered the Soviet reaction to Apollo 10: "We used to joke that Stafford, rather than just doing a maneuver, could have changed ...
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Don Eyles Walks Us Through The Lunar Module Source Code
Both the Apollo Command Module (CM) and Lunar Module (LM) were humankind’s first fly-by-wire aircraft. This means that the human does not actually fly it manually by stick, the computer is the ...
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Apollo Spacecraft: NASA's Lunar Mission to Saturn
The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components: the ...