Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computerevolution of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Mr. Hall contends that the development of the Apollo computer supported and motivated the semiconductor industry during a time when integrated circuits were just emerging. This was the period just before the electronics revolution that gave birth to modern computers. In addition, the book recalls the history of computer technology, both hardware and software, and the applications of digital computing to missile guidance systems and manned spacecraft. The book also offers graphics and photos drawn from the Draper Laboratories archives that illustrate the technology and related events during the Apollo project. Written for experts as well as lay persons, Journey to the Moon is the first book of its kind and a must for anyone interested in the history of science and the relevance of computer technology to space exploration. |
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Contents
Memory Components | 24 |
MIT Instrumentation Laboratory | 37 |
Requirements | 53 |
In The BeginningApollo Computer | 69 |
IntegratedCircuit Proposal | 82 |
Block I Computers | 95 |
Production | 100 |
System Integration | 103 |
NextGenerationBlock II | 117 |
Naysayers Revisited | 133 |
Assembly | 146 |
Mission Software | 161 |
Finale | 179 |
Appendix | 183 |
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Common terms and phrases
AGC3 AGC4 Apollo 11 Apollo computer Apollo guidance computer Apollo Program application Archives Photograph Number astronauts bits Block I computer changes Charles Stark Draper chip command module components computer designers core Courtesy Charles Stark Courtesy MIT Instrumentation Courtesy Raytheon digital computer digital differential analyzer Draper Laboratory Archives DSKY electrical electronic equipment erasable memory failure Fairchild Figure files of Jack flight functions Graphic Number guidance and control guidance system hardware History Office LOG input/output inputs Instrumentation Laboratory Report integrated circuits integrated-circuit interconnections interfaces Jack Poundstone Photograph JSC History Office Laboratory Archives Photograph logic circuits logic gate logic module lunar landing lunar module LVDC memory module Micrologic missile MIT Instrumentation Laboratory module's moon NASA operations output packaging Plate Polaris Poundstone Photograph Number production pulses registers reliability rope memory schedule semiconductor simulator Stark Draper Laboratory switch tion transistor uplink velocity wiring word length
Bibliographic information
| Title | Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer Library of Flight |
| Author | Eldon C. Hall |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | AIAA, 1996 |
| ISBN | 156347185X, 9781563471858 |
| Length | 196 pages |
| Subjects | › Computers / History Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics Technology & Engineering / History |
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