Wall Street Journal

Apollo's Code: Meet the Computer Programmer Who Landed Us on the Moon

Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the ship's computer became overloaded. Few were more nervous ...
techtimes

Apollo 11 Source Code That Took Astronauts To The Moon Lands On GitHub, Freely Available

Apollo 11's source code is now freely available to everyone on GitHub, and the manned moon landing project hides some quirky bits and pieces in its code. What surprises most when looking at the ...
Los Angeles Times

The Apollo 11 computer code had references to the Black Power movement and quoted Shakespeare

Imagine that it’s the mid-1960s, and NASA has hired you to help put a man on the moon. Flying a spacecraft is incredibly complicated. If the trajectory is even one ...
eTeknix

Apollo 11 Code Now on GitHub

When it comes to historic spacecraft, the Apollo 11 is a big one. With this in mind, the source code for Apollo 11’s guidance computer has been available online for years but now it’s available on ...
Inverse

The Apollo 11 Source Code Was Released on GitHub, It's Hilarious

In a fun bit of software archaeology, former NASA intern Chris Garry uploaded the entire Apollo 11 flight guidance source code on GitHub. While the source code has been available for some time, its ...
Yahoo

Fact Check: Photo Shows Software Engineer Margaret Hamilton with Moon-Landing Code She Wrote?

A photograph authentically shows pioneering software engineer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969. A black-and-white photograph that ...
Astronomy

Elaine Denniston: The woman who corrected Apollo’s code

Elaine Denniston, possessing only a high school education, worked as a keypuncher at MIT's Instrumentation Lab during the Apollo program, inputting code onto punch cards from engineers' handwritten ...
Time

You Can Now Read Apollo 11’s Source Code

The source code from the Apollo 11 guidance computer has been placed on the programming website GitHub and made available to the public. The pages, which were painstakingly put together from original ...
IFLScience

There's A Bunch Of Hidden Easter Eggs Inside The Source Code For The Apollo 11 Mission

As the old saying goes, engineers just want to have fun. Or something like that. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. And that’s ...
InfoWorld

Adobe releases first Apollo code to developers

Adobe Systems will give developers a free preview of its forthcoming runtime code-named Apollo on Monday by releasing an alpha version of the technology on its Adobe Labs site. The technology allows ...
Orlando Sentinel

Apollo 11 computer code had references to Black Power movement and Shakespeare

Imagine that it’s the mid-1960s, and NASA has hired you to help put a man on the moon. Flying a spacecraft is incredibly complicated. If the trajectory is even one ...