The 70-Pound Brain: Guidance, Navigation & Software

Core rope memory, priority scheduling and the AGC that flew the mission — how Apollo computed its way to the Moon.

Playlist by @apollo_engineering

13 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer — TNMoC
  2. Restorers Try to Get Lunar Module Guidance Computer Up and Running | WSJ — The Wall Street Journal
  3. How did the Apollo flight computers get men to the moon and back ? — Curious Droid
  4. The Real Story Behind the Apollo 11 Computer Error | WSJ — The Wall Street Journal
  5. Gimbal Lock and Apollo 13 — The Vintage Space
  6. MIT Science Reporter—"Computer for Apollo" (1965) — From the Vault of MIT
  7. The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo 14 — Scott Manley
  8. This is the code that sent Apollo 11 to the moon (and it’s awesome) — Coding with Dee
  9. Apollo Core Rope Memory (Apollo Guidance Computer Part 30) — CuriousMarc
  10. Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon — CuriousMarc
  11. NASA’s first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton - Matt Porter & Margaret Hamilton — TED-Ed
  12. How a Young Engineer Saved the Moon Landing — Newsthink
  13. Apollo: The Alignment Optical Telescope — engineerguy