Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

by David A. Mindell

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Chapter 5: "Braincase on the Tip of a Firecracker": Apollo Guidance

AC Electronics Press Release

Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control Quick Reference Data.

Source documents on John F. Kennedy's decision to go to the moon (from Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis).

MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, job advertisement #1

MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, job advertisement #2

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W. E. Vander Velde. ‘‘Space Navigation Guidance and Control. Volume I.’’ Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, 1965.

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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (April–June 2000): 28.

Hand, James A. ‘‘Computer-Aided Inertial Platform Realignment in Manned Space Flight.’’ Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, 1968.

Hand, James A. ‘‘MIT’s Role in Project Apollo, Vol. I: Project Management, Systems Development, Abstracts and Bibliography.’’ Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, 1971.

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Fame. Alamogordo, N.M.: American Astronautical Society, 1976.

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Marshall Space Flight Center, 1967.

Sears, Norman E. ‘‘Technical Development Status of Apollo Guidance and Navigation.’’ Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, 1964.

See, Eliot. ‘‘Engineering and Operational Approaches for Projects Gemini and Apollo.’’ In Society of
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