Apollo CM and LM had the Apollo Guidance Computer provide very advanced digital fly by wire for the time. (in fact I think it was one of the first DFBW systems)

Apollo CM and LM had the Apollo Guidance Computer provide very advanced digital fly by wire for the time. (in fact I think it was one of the first DFBW systems). Later DFBW research on F-8 Crusaders started out using the actual AGC as well, interestingly enough. AGC was also one of the first machines to use integrated circuits (to keep it light, no doubt) so you could say that the apollo program also advanced computer research by quite a bit.