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From Curiosity to the Moon: What I Learned Reading the Code That Landed Apollo 11

  • A GitHub repository with the digitized source code of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) has been discovered.
  • The AGC source code was instrumental in landing human beings on the Moon in 1969.
  • The Apollo Guidance Computer was known for its precise engineering and was designed in the 1960s by the MIT Instrumentation Lab.
  • The code was mostly written in AGC assembly language by a team of engineers, including many women.

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