#1 2016-07-20 19:31:11

Horizon_Brave

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NASA has released the source code to the Apollo 11 Moon landing!

Okay guys, I don't know about you, but this is freaking neat...

So I'm not a really serious programmer, but I really can't say I've found anything cooler than this. NASA released the Assembly Language code that was on board on the rocket that transported the moon landings in 1969! "Apollo 11's original source code was developed by computer programmers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the '60s. The code was backbone of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), which astronauts used to guide, navigate and control what became the first spacecraft to ever land on the moon. "

I don't know Assembly nearly at all, but man, what a really neat read...

Here's the link to the github:

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

And here's a link to abc's story on it:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/apollo … d=40515222

Have fun staging your own moon landing! 

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: NASA has released the source code to the Apollo 11 Moon landing!

Yeah, this is cool -- nobody mentioned it 10 days ago, you must have missed his post:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 960#p31960

which astronauts used to guide, navigate and control what became the first spacecraft to ever land on the moon.

Interesting choice of words -- the program didn't actually land the craft, the pilots took over in the final descent.
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Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-07-20 21:09:19)

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Gaucho

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Re: NASA has released the source code to the Apollo 11 Moon landing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Gu … e:Dsky.jpg

It does fuel conspiracy theories, the fact that their computers had... almost nothing/state-of-the-art hardware and software?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

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brontosaurusrex

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Re: NASA has released the source code to the Apollo 11 Moon landing!

Any Appolo-computer assembler manuals? (I'd actually like to understand it, or at least a part or two)

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tynman

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Re: NASA has released the source code to the Apollo 11 Moon landing!

While you're waiting for an assembler manual for the AGC, take a look at the link hhh provided above for the Wikipedea article on AGC.  It is surprisingly thorough. It explains all the instructions available, of which there aren't many, and the registers  It doesn't explain the linkage conventions, but with what's in the Wiki article and looking at the code in git, you could probably infer it.