The machine that made the Moon missions possible
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The machine that made the Moon missions possible.We've all been there: you're working on something important, your PC crashes, and you lose all your progress.Such a failure was not an option during the Apollo missions, the first time ever that a computer was entrusted with handling flight control and...
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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum/AFP / Handout The astronauts would input two-digit codes for verbs and nouns, to carry out commands like firing thrusters, or locking on to a particular star to re-align the ship