Just be wary, they introduced a serious bug in v13
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules
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Re: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules
#22Hasn’t it always been “public domain” but only now published on GitHub?
Re: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules
#23Title is incorrect, this has been available for quite a while
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Re: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules
#24Discussed in 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=715395
2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3888638
2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063192
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522539
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945
Smaller threads from a year ago:
Re: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules
#25Wow, was "burn baby burn" really part of the original source code?! https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
The whole line is not as shocking
# BURN, BABY, BURN -- MASTER IGNITION ROUTINERe: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules
#26Wow, was "burn baby burn" really part of the original source code?! https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
The whole line is not as shocking # BURN, BABY, BURN -- MASTER IGNITION ROUTINE
It makes sense in context, of course, I just didn't think of NASA in the late 60ies as the sort of place where you could write 'clever' things like that.
Re: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules
#27Hasn’t it always been “public domain” but only now published on GitHub?
All NASA images and videos are in the public domain, but the same is not true for any technologies that they develop.
Re: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
>NUMERO MYSTERIOSO https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
People frequently seem to think this is about the line number it's on (666), but that doesn't have anything to do with it. That line number is a totally modern construction; the original source code was on punch cards. That particular comment was punched onto card number 0562 in the LUNAR LANDING GUIDANCE EQUATIONS log section. The original developers only referred to code by punch card number, and page number in the…
One heck of a coincidence.