Engineering

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was such a marvel of software & computer engineering on top of all mech & EE + interdisciplinary engineering it took to make the Lunar Module reach / be able to land on the surface of the moon. 

Able to handle radar, IMU, display, input, & engine commands - all done in the 1960s

Margaret Hamilton was amazing, she was the lead for the SW project that ran the AGC. 

@cassie mentioned eng ppl we look up to, I'd put her in that list for sure.

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Margaret Hamilton was amazing, she was the lead for the SW project that ran the AGC. 

@cassie mentioned eng ppl we look up to, I'd put her in that list for sure. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/margaret-hamilton-led-nasa-software-team-landed-astronauts-moon-180971575/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)#

A good overview:

https://wehackthemoon.com/tech/apollo-guidance-computer-agc-computer-engineering-breakthrough

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Lunar Module and command Module each had a AGC. LM AGC had different job than CM AGC, the former focused on landing, the latter focused on GNC

Also A triple redundant system was proposed but difficult because each AGC weighed 32 kg. In the end I think they went with just a large protective casing against cosmic rays

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9064-the_ultimate_apollo_guidance_computer_talk

Great talk

Such diagram is for high level presentations?

Surprising that the computer looks so much at the centre of everything, which in system design means fatal criticality. Vague memory there where two computers, just in case.

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Nothing short of incredible what we have

Yet we use it for dog jpegs

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I still find it amazing how in the core memory on the Saturn V, every bit was hand woven

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