Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Vintage computing enthusiasts have recreated NASA’s legendary “Apollo Guidance Computer,” the 1960s-era assembly-language onboard guidance and navigation computer for the Apollo missions to the moon. Unfortunately, the software had been lost for the Apollo 10 mission (a manned “dress rehearsal” mission which flew to the moon eight weeks before Neil Armstrong’s famous moonwalk mission). But spaceflight…
Tag: Apollo 10
Long-lost ‘Snoopy’ lunar lander finally found
The lunar module that was used during the Apollo 10 Moon mission has been lost in space for over 50 years. Named ‘Snoopy’ after the famous dog of Char… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/328382/long-lost-snoopy-lunar-lander-finally-found…
NASA ‘Snoopy’ Lunar Module Likely Found 50 Years After Being Jettisoned Into Space
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: NASA’s trip to the Moon’s surface in July 1969 was preceded by a lot of preparatory missions — including Apollo 10, which involved a mock mission with everything but the actual landing. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan flew a lunar module, nicknamed “Snoopy” by the agency, nearly all the way to the…
‘A long ride’: 50 years ago, a dress rehearsal for the Moon landing
As Earth grew ever smaller below his spacecraft, Apollo 10 commander Tom Stafford made an unusual request to mission control. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-years-rehearsal-moon.html…
NASA celebrates 50th anniversary of Apollo 10
50 years ago, the Apollo 10 crew flew within 9 miles of the Moon’s surface a mere two months before Apollo 11. While it was Neil Armstrong and Buzz Al… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/327839/nasa-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-apollo-10…