Hackaday

Apollo Guidance Computer Saved From The Scrap Yard

NASA needed a small and lightweight computer to send humans on their journey to the Moon and back, but computers of the day were made out of discrete components that were heavy, large, complicated, ...

In 1970, Apollo 13 used a wristwatch to time a 14-second burn without computer guidance. 56 years later, the manual maneuver remains a textbook survival feat and …

When Apollo 13 Went Dark, a Mechanical Wrist watch Saved the Mission. After an explosion crippled their spacecraft, the crew ...
Hackaday

Apollo Guidance Computer Gets The Rust Treatment

Seems like all the cool kids are rewriting legacy C programs in Rust these days, so we suppose it was only a matter of time before somebody decided to combine the memory-safe language with some of the ...
insider.si.edu

Apollo Flight Guidance Computer Software Collection [Hamilton]

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This collection consists of reports, ...
insider.si.edu

Computer, Apollo Guidance, Block I

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This an unflown but complete "Block I ...
SpaceNews

“Apollonauts” reflect on lunar landing and return to the moon

Five of the "Apollonauts" who developed the Apollo Guidance Computer — Dan Lickly, Jim Kernan , Peter Kachmar, Peter Volante and Hugh Blair-Smith — pose with a model of the moon at Draper Labs to mark ...
ExtremeTech

Apollo Guidance Computer Restored, Used to Mine Bitcoin

Some people change the world with technology. Some people use technology to change the world. And some people find ways to mine Bitcoin on really, really, really old computers. Ancient Computer ...
Ars Technica

Computer from NASA’s Apollo program reprogrammed to mine bitcoin

Among the many technological breakthroughs of NASA’s Apollo project to land a man on the Moon was the Apollo Guidance Computer that flew onboard Apollo spacecraft. In an era when most computers were ...
Cult of Mac

Your iPhone could handle 120 million moon missions at once

My father worked on an engineering team that designed the housing that held the components for the guidance computer onboard Apollo 11. Just this morning, I read an article looking back on the 50 ...
The Verge

The latest USB-C chargers are apparently more powerful than Apollo 11’s computer

Fly me to the Moon, and let me... charge... among the stars Fly me to the Moon, and let me... charge... among the stars Over the past decade, it’s become ...
VICE

This Guy Mined Bitcoin With a Computer That Helped NASA Land on the Moon

Over the years there’s been no shortage of creativity when it comes to innovative new Bitcoin mining efforts. We’ve seen mining rigs built in the back of Teslas, mining rigs powered by wind or human ...