I have to admit, I don’t really get all the brouhaha over the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing… but this is cool: Google Code announces that some of the source code for the Apollo 11 spacecraft has been put online

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JS

check it out — Shakespeare jokes: http://code.google.com/p/virtualagc/source/browse/trunk/Luminary099/LUNAR_LANDING_GUIDANCE_EQUATIONS.s?r=258

# HERE IS THE PHILOSOPHY OF GUILDENSTERN: ON EVERY APPEARANCE OR DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MANUAL THROTTLE
# DISCRETE TO SELECT P67 OR P66 RESPECTIVELY: ON EVERY APPEARANCE OF THE ATTITUDE-HOLD DISCRETE TO SELECT P66
# UNLESS THE CURRENT PROGRAM IS P67 IN WHICH CASE THERE IS NO CHANGE

GUILDEN EXTEND # IS UN-AUTO-THROTTLE DISCRETE PRESENT?
# STERN # RSB 2009: Not originally a comment.

justin

Ha, it’s like you QAed the whole thing.