A team of Hollywood prop and visual artists are offering replicas of the Apollo command module control panel.The museum-quality reproduction features every switch, knob and indicator that was used ...

The Apollo program marked the first time humans had trusted the piloting a spacecraft or aircraft to a computer system. The AGC was designed by MIT, built by Raytheon, and it weighed 70 pounds and ...

An Apollo Guidance Computer (left), with DSKY module (right). For reference, the AGC pictured here measures 61×32×17 cm. Credit: NASA How the AGC worked: Jobs and Tasks ...

The AGC, was, as the Journal reports, “the first digital general-purpose, multitasking, interactive portable computer” and without it, and the software behind it, the Apollo 11 moon mission would have ...

Former astronaut Alfred Worden served as the command module pilot for NASA’s Apollo 15 mission, which was launched on July 26, 1971. It was the fourth mission of the Apollo program to land on ...

This is a "Block I," unflown keyboard and display unit (DSKY) for the Apollo Command Module's Guidance Computer. The Block I units were installed on early unmanned Apollo capsules, but by the time of ...

For Apollo 11, the command module, named Columbia, served as the living quarters for the three-person crew and was manufactured by North American Rockwell. The Columbia measured only 3.9 meters in ...