The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM)...
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The Apollo Abort Guidance System (AGS, also known as Abort Guidance Section) was a backup computer system providing an abort capability in the event of...
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The Gemini Guidance Computer (sometimes Gemini Spacecraft On-Board Computer, OBC) was a digital, serial computer designed for Project Gemini, America's...
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Apollo primary guidance, navigation, and control system (PGNCS, pronounced pings) was a self-contained inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft...
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Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) (category Apollo program)
development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded two software companies, Higher...
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Eldon C. Hall (category American computer scientists)
Eldon Hall was the leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) at MIT, and advocated the use of integrated circuits for this...
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testing began, but a planned burn was aborted automatically when the Apollo Guidance Computer detected the craft was not going as fast as planned. Flight Director...
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Core rope memory (category Computer memory)
used in the 1960s by early NASA Mars space probes and then in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), which was built by Raytheon. The software for the AGC was...
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Embedded system (redirect from Embeded computer)
Laboratory. At the project's inception, the Apollo guidance computer was considered the riskiest item in the Apollo project as it employed the then newly developed...
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Draper Laboratory (category Apollo program)
laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit-based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970...
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Stealth (2005) Apollo 13 (1995) Apollo Guidance Computer RocketMan (1997) From the Earth to the Moon (1998, TV miniseries) Apollo Guidance Computer Ghost in...
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David Hoag (category Apollo program)
optical alignment telescope and space sextant, and Apollo guidance computer, which was used during the Apollo missions. Hoag was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
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dedicated interrupt every 40 ms and takes 18 ms to run. Unlike the Apollo Guidance Computer software, the software which ran on the LVDC seems to have vanished...
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Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer. AIAA. ISBN 1-56347-185-X. "APOLLO GUIDANCE COMPUTER (AGC) Schematics". klabs.org. Rich Katz...
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coast-to-coast unmanned flight. The lab also made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. In 1960, Draper was...
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the Apollo Guidance Computer, by the military in the LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile, the Honeywell ALERT airborne computer, and...
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Laboratory who had worked on the software for NASA's Apollo Program including the Apollo Guidance Computer. The company specialized in compiler technology...
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Resistor–transistor logic (category Apollo program hardware)
monolithic integrated circuit. RTL integrated circuits were used in the Apollo Guidance Computer, whose design began in 1961 and which first flew in 1966. A bipolar...
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integrated circuit (IC) chips in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). Project Apollo was abruptly halted by the Apollo 1 fire on January 27, 1967, in which...
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(IMP) and silicon integrated circuit chips in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). The crew of Apollo 8 sent the first live televised pictures of the Earth...
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functionally complete). The computer used in the spacecraft that first carried humans to the moon, the Apollo Guidance Computer, was constructed entirely...
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The Apollo spacecraft was composed of three parts designed to accomplish the American Apollo program's goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by the end...
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History of computing hardware (redirect from Computer generation)
mid-1960s. The first silicon IC computer was the Apollo Guidance Computer or AGC. Although not the most powerful computer of its time, the extreme constraints...
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Moon landing conspiracy theories (redirect from Apollo moon landing hoax)
on computers to aid in the Moon missions. The Apollo Guidance Computer was on the Lunar Module and the command and service module. Many computers at the...
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Magnetic-core memory (category Magnetic-core memory computers)
core rope memory, for example, was used on the mission-critical Apollo Guidance Computer essential to NASA's successful Moon landings. Using smaller cores...
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The Primary Guidance, Navigation and Control System (PGNCS) was developed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory; the Apollo Guidance Computer was manufactured...
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and Computer Design Fundamentals, Third Edition. Prentice Hall, 2004. p. 73. Whipple, Walt (2019). First-Hand:Hacking Apollo's Guidance Computer. Engineering...
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Inertial navigation system (redirect from Inertial guidance)
guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and a computer to...
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mathematician and educator who led the design of the Apollo guidance computer during the Apollo missions during the 1960s. Battin was born on March 3...
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integrated circuits was developed at Fairchild Semiconductor for the Apollo Guidance Computer in 1962. Texas Instruments soon introduced its own family of RTL...
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