On Apollo 8, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell conscientiously attended the computer as he fed in data from the CM sextant. When the spacecraft reached the Moon in December 1968, the computer and ...

The command module had a wider ... although the thickest part was on the back end. Apollo's computer, though easily outpowered by today's cellphones, was a marvel of the day, based on the fast ...

along with the Flight Control Computer which was actually an analog machine. There were then two identical Apollo Guidance Computers (AGC)—one was in the Apollo Command Module (Apollo CM), and ...

As the Apollo Guidance Computer was completed, it was installed in both the Command Module and the Lunar Module. There were no backups. "It had to not only work, but it had to work the first time ...

The Apollo Guidance Computer, in both its guises—one on board the core spacecraft, and the other on the lunar module—was a triumph of engineering. Computers had been the size of rooms and ...

so it was a good time for [Frank O’Brien] to take readers through Apollo Guidance Computer and the hack that saved Apollo 14 (while it was in lunar orbit). Space fans would already know many ...

The Apollo Guidance Computer, in both its guises — one on board the core spacecraft, and the other on the lunar module — was a triumph of engineering. Computers had been the size of rooms and filled ...

Verb and noun commands also instructed the Apollo lunar module's computer to begin the landing routine. Both of these actions can be replicated on the DSKY Moonwatch. Verb and noun codes also ...

Hence not only is this computer rare, very expensive to produce ... Neil Armstrong in the Apollo Landing Module simulator. All the astronauts practised countless hours getting it right in the ...