The AGC pictured alongside the DSKY. 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 ...

Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on ... Core among them was the Apollo Guidance Computer, charged with keeping the craft on target as ...

referred to as the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was one of the first digital computers used in space flight. It was ...

It weighs six pounds. Although already obsolete (it has only a 286 processor), it is faster and has more memory than the 70-pound computer on board the Apollo spacecraft that carried astronauts to ...

Few were more nervous than the young computer programmer who had written the code for the landing. On the Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, WSJ sat down with programmer Don Eyles. Photo: Alexander ...