The Apollo Guidance Computer is a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The AGC provided computation and elec
Apollo Guidance Computer and DSKY
The display and keyboard (DSKY) interface of the Apollo Guidance Computer mounted on the control panel of the command module, with the flight director attitude indicator (FDAI) above
Partial list of numeric codes for verbs and nouns in the Apollo Guidance Computer, printed for quick reference on a side panel
Photograph of the dual NOR gate chip used to build the Block II Apollo Guidance Computer. Connections (clockwise from top center) ground, inputs (3), output, power, output, inputs (3).
Margaret Elaine Hamilton is an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight s
Apollo Guidance Computer
…by Frederic Martin, and LUMINARY on the lunar module led by George Cherry. Details of these programs were implemented by a team under the direction of Margaret Hamilton. Hamilton was very interested in how the astronauts would interact with the software and predicted the types of errors that could occur due to human…
Hamilton in 1969, standing next to listings of the Apollo guidance software she and her MIT team produced
Hamilton during her time as lead Apollo flight software designer
Official photo for NASA, 1989