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The Apollo Guidance Computer software influenced the design of Skylab, Space Shuttle and early fly-by-wire fighter aircraft systems. [28] [29] The Apollo Guidance computer has been called "The fourth astronaut" for its role in helping the three astronauts who relied on it: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. [30]
Apollo Command Module primary guidance system components Apollo Lunar Module primary guidance system components Apollo Inertial Measurement Unit. The Apollo primary guidance, navigation, and control system (PGNCS, pronounced pings) was a self-contained inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft to carry out their missions when communications with Earth were interrupted, either as ...
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 failure of the Lunar Module's primary guidance system (Apollo PGNCS) during descent, ascent or rendezvous. As an abort system, it did not support guidance for a lunar landing. [1]
Moon Machines is a Science Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting the engineering challenges of the Apollo program to land men on the Moon. It covers everything from the iconic Saturn V to the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the Space Suits, the Guidance and Control Computer, and the Lunar Rover.
A guidance computer provides calculations and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of a spacecraft or launch vehicle. Pages in category "Guidance computers" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Schematic of a multi-transistor RTL NOR gate, as used in the Apollo Guidance Computer integrated circuits. [4] Photograph of the dual 3-input NOR gate chip used to build the Apollo Guidance Computer. Connections (clockwise from top center) ground, inputs (3), output, power (V cc), output, inputs (3). The six transistors (two groups of three ...
Minuteman I D-17B computer specifications Year: 1962 The D17B is a synchronous serial general-purpose digital computer. Manufacturer: Autonetics Division of North American Aviation Applications: Guidance and control of the Minuteman I ICBM. Autonetics D17b Guidance Computer Disk Drive Read Write Heads. Programming and numerical system:
On August 10 of 1961 NASA awarded MIT a contract for preliminary design study of a guidance and navigation system for Apollo program. [9] (see Apollo on-board guidance, navigation, and control system, Dave Hoag, International Space Hall of Fame Dedication Conference in Alamogordo, N.M., October 1976 [10]). Today's space shuttle guidance is ...