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Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules

158 points| rahuldottech | 6 years ago |github.com

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bensochar|6 years ago

>TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...

...it was not temporary

RcouF1uZ4gsC|6 years ago

Was the hope that the code would be temporary, or that the external conditions the code was dealing with would be temporary? Remember this is flight control software. There might be transient conditions that the system can handle fine, but could lead to failure if they persist.

davidw|6 years ago

Wow, was "burn baby burn" really part of the original source code?!

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...

floatingatoll|6 years ago

Line 34:

> At the get-together of the AGC developers celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first moonwalk, Don Eyles (one of the authors of this routine along with Peter Adler) has related to us a little interesting history behind the naming of the routine.

ASalazarMX|6 years ago

The whole line is not as shocking

    # BURN, BABY, BURN -- MASTER IGNITION ROUTINE

NikolaeVarius|6 years ago

Title is incorrect, this has been available for quite a while

dang|6 years ago

We've fixed the title. Submitters: please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. This is in the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(Submitted title was "Entire Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code is now in the public domain")

osamagirl69|6 years ago

I would argue that It should have (2016) appended to it to match the HN style, but it is otherwise accurate.

elliotec|6 years ago

But it's still available "now" so I don't think it's that inaccurate.

turbostyler|6 years ago

Didn’t this get released a couple years ago? Or was that a different ship?

thewonderidiot|6 years ago

These files were originally put on GitHub in the VirtualAGC repository [1] in 2015. The code was publicly released and digitized into these source files in 2009, through cooperation with the MIT Museum.

[1] https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc

333c|6 years ago

I have the same question, and in addition I'm confused why this repository seems to have been created by some random GitHub user.

jagged-chisel|6 years ago

Hasn’t it always been “public domain” but only now published on GitHub?

rahuldottech|6 years ago

All NASA images and videos are in the public domain, but the same is not true for any technologies that they develop.