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Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
- mrspeaker 9y agoI kind of never thought too much about the moon landing until SpaceX hype and the book The Martian got me interested in the skies. Someone here recently posted http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/ http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/ which is a collection of video, audio, and data streams synced in real time of the landing. It's so exhilarating and amazing. And it was the 60s! It was just so rock and roll, an incredible feat.
- abecedarius 9y agoIf you visit Huntsville you can see an Apollo up close. (The guidance computer too.) It was a holy relic to me, and I'm not even religious.
- Rebelgecko 9y agoI'm pretty sure my heart rate was consistently higher than Neil Armstrong's just from the stress of watching that
- acavalcante80 9y agoI know it's weird, but I love hear these audios while I'm coding and working!
- keithpeter 9y agoI grew up with the bleep. And those calm American voices. (UK)
- jweather 9y agoThen SomaFM's Mission Control station may interest you: https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/ https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
- rwmj 9y agoYou'll want to read this book which goes into extreme technical detail about how the Apollo mission worked: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apollo-Springer-Praxis-Books-Exploration/dp/0387716750/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apollo-Springer-Praxis-Books-Explor...
- keithpeter 9y agoTrack down a copy of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith. Both paper and electrons.
- mechatronix00 9y agoFor those interested in the AGC development history, I highly recommend “Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight” by David Mindell.
- pinewurst 9y agoAlso, "Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer" by Eldon Hall.
- netsharc 9y agoSo the first minutes of the 2 guys doing the talk is just them speed-reading what sounds like a Wikipedia entry. I skipped ahead and it didn't get better, they sound like TAs reading lecture notes.
- keithpeter 9y agoYes the commentary was a little fast paced, shades of Patrick Moore on Sky at Night. I personally found the graphic presentation of the machine instructions and machine design informative. I was pausing and stepping through frames quite a lot. 57:38 or so for the code 1202 alarm. I have a much better understanding of 1202 from this presentation.
- willyt 9y agoThis interview on omega tau is pretty interesting also. http://traffic.libsyn.com/omegataupodcast/omegatau-167-theApolloGuidanceComputer.mp3 http://traffic.libsyn.com/omegataupodcast/omegatau-167-theAp...
- alephnil 9y agoA not so inspiring talk about a very inspiring topic. A much better talk about the Apollo guidance computer was held at Code Mesh London 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY45YE7ggng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY45YE7ggng
- rootbear 9y agoThe comments on Youtube for that video are not kind. I'll watch all of it later, but it seems to have some serious flaws. I enjoyed an older documentary on the AGC that was part of a series called Moon Machines. The episode on the AGC is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YA7X5we8ng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YA7X5we8ng
- gimili 9y agoOfftopic question: anybody knows what kind of software they might have used to build their slides? Some of the animations are really neat.
- jweather 9y agoAnything by Michael Steil is well worth watching, but hold on to your hat. I highly recommend his Ultimate Gameboy talk as well.
- dfboyd 9y agoThere is a small mistake in the talk: they say all the AGCs are either crashed onto the earth, crashed onto the moon, not flown, or returned (and in museums). There is still one AGC out there in space: the lunar module for Apollo 10 was put into orbit around the Sun.