Flying the Apollo 11 Moon Landing with the Original AGC Code (Apollo Guidance Computer Part 23)

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We fly the Apollo 11 landing to a high degree of fidelity, with the simulated LM guided by a real AGC running the original Apollo 11 flight software. Mike has hooked the AGC to a LM simulation from the Orbiter/NASSP program, which is a very accurate simulation. Just as back then, it requires piloting skill and nerves of steel. We fly two landings in this video: the first one is a "nominal" Apollo landing to explain things. The second one is a hair raising Apollo 11 re-enactment landing, with 1202 errors and the actual Apollo astronauts calls from the radio recordings weaved in. Seat back and fly safe.
0:00 Not a game, but the actual Apollo 11 code running on an AGC replica
2:11 Nominal landing
18:35 Apollo 11 actual landing (with air to ground calls)
38:26 Abort lift-off from the Moon
Here is a link to the installation instructions of the unmodified Orbiter/NASSP software, which flies using an AGC emulation instead of real AGC hardware as shown here:
www.orbiter-forum.com/threads...
Some relevant links:
Playlist of the restoration series: • Apollo Guidance Comput...
Block I AGC period documentary: • MIT Science Reporter-"...
Inertial navigation system documentary: • Video
Schematics: www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links....
and: archive.org/details/agc_handb...
Mike's AGC backplane viewer: apolloguidance.computer/200310...
AGC software repo: github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc
The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk: • 34C3 - The Ultimate A...
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@badguy1481 5 жыл бұрын

AMAZING...AMAZING...AMAZING! I worked on the Apollo program, interpreting and flowing out the Digital Autopilot in order to teach its operation at the Manned Spacecraft Center. I NEVER thought ANYONE even knew about the Apollo Guidance and Navigation Computer...these 50 years on....let alone be willing to do the work, that you have obviously done, to understand its operation. NASA should be PAYING YOU to do demonstrations around the country...and the world! As I said AMAZING...you VERY crazy...GENIUS.... person!

@pederb82 5 жыл бұрын

As an engineer I’m most impressed by your work, all of you. But I’m most impressed by Mikes knowledge at such a young age. A brilliant mind for sure.

@christopher88719 5 жыл бұрын

Mike just is so smart, he is amazing. On top of all that he seems like a genuinely nice person. I predict that he will do great things in life, he has already done so much and he only just getting started.

@rkan2 5 жыл бұрын

He is just short of 30? I know most people don't match, but as the stories go, the AGC was programmed by people in their twenties, where a bunch of them had never done programming before!

@jacksonmacd 5 жыл бұрын

@@rkan2 yeah, he's a perfect match

@Conenion 5 жыл бұрын

I'm an engineer, too. Mike's versatility (hardware, software... you name it) and dedication is amazing. Plus, he can explain things very well.... a rare combination.

@ralphmalone8337 4 жыл бұрын

Good job guys.. Restoration and preservation is so necessary to the future..

@pdppanelman5889 5 жыл бұрын

As a retired programmer who watched the landings on a 6 inch mono portable TV in Germany. I must say I regard Mike and Carl as the best of the best,

@mikefochtman7164 Жыл бұрын

My career was largely coding simulations of power plants. And yes, we too would simulate every relay in every circuit to match the 'as-built' systems. It really is a challenge and it's great when the simulation operates with such high fidelity. And yes, a couple times we uncovered something that the operators were like, "It shouldn't do that.... Should it??" And after some research, "Yes... yes it should."

@triestelondon 5 жыл бұрын

"Buzz, we'll need you to remove the potting compound from an AGC memory module and replace 28 diodes".

@brickviking667 5 жыл бұрын

By that stage they were probably working with the newer diode manufacturer, not the one that had produced the ones in this B11 module.

@pschroeter1 5 жыл бұрын

Is it much different that Buzz sticking a pen into a broken circuit breaker so they could take off?

@alexcarson2117 4 жыл бұрын

Can that be removed somehow..I wondered that?

@jasonmurawski5877 4 жыл бұрын

Alex Carson the agc was directly behind them, but the modules could only be assessed if they had an allen key to split the computer

@johns1625 3 жыл бұрын

Dude up until like 2 years ago I had no idea how much of that work was put on Buzz's list. He's basically carrying literally every piece of equipment on the lunar surface and doing all the experiments while Neil just pranced around taking pictures or filming Buzz from behind. The potting compound sounds exactly right!

@freddyburger5574 5 жыл бұрын

This has seriously become my favorite series ever on youtube... What am I gonna watch when all the Apollo hype dies down? :/

@chriholt 5 жыл бұрын

As someone who has been a space nerd since I got up in the middle of the night to watch Gemini launches, I have always thought that the Apollo "hype" has always been active!

@antigen4 5 жыл бұрын

if you like this - you should see the xerox alto rebuild! even better - and the teletype refurbs!!

@bobl78 5 жыл бұрын

the hype and fascination is not so much about restoring computers, it´s about restoring the AGC... the fascination is what it did... I do not have so much relation to other computers of that time because a) I don´t really know that these computers did at that time and b) the task of a ground based computer does not seem to be so much of a challenge to me because usually no lives depended on a mainfraime back then and they were not performing their tasks in real time

@johanrg70 5 жыл бұрын

@@antigen4 Those series are great, but the Apollo program and the AGC has this history that I find a lot more fascinating.

@antigen4 5 жыл бұрын

yes sure of course ... the apollo project was fascinating - no one will dispute it - though as an actual 'technical drama' i found those more interesting - maybe because (for me) the AGC was such a tiny part of apollo -whereas those were more self contained and kind of stories unto themselves ...

@donmoore7785 5 жыл бұрын

So you modified the Orbiter program to interface to a hardware AGC? Certainly they never expected anyone to have an AGC or even your FPGA implementation. Amazing.

@indianajones91 5 жыл бұрын

"Project Apollo - NASSP" is the addon for the Orbiter Space Flight Simulator which is simulating the Lunar Module in this video. Mike made changes to NASSP so that it uses his FPGA AGC instead of the Virtual AGC emulator, which NASSP normally uses.

@rockettony1014 4 жыл бұрын

@@indianajones91 i wonder of there is a place to get it i always wanted to simulate the 1202 alarm during landing

@TheEmeraldMenOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

@@rockettony1014 you could always trigger it manually?

@ui6144 4 жыл бұрын

It's really neat how Marc calls Mike "Sherlock". It's a privilege to be an audience to two of the smartest individuals on KZfaq today.

@MarcelHuguenin 5 жыл бұрын

This is so freaking AWESOME!! Flying to and landing on the moon with the original AGC, how cool is that! You did a great job you guys! Good luck at MIT!

@randalltufts3321 5 жыл бұрын

He works at SpaceX he could teach MIT kiddies something

@randalltufts3321 5 жыл бұрын

@@StreuB1 I heard marc mention that Mike was on loan from SpaceX. That's who I meant sorry friend

@randalltufts3321 5 жыл бұрын

@@StreuB1 I'm sure your correct as it's only been a few episodes back tho that marc made mention of it. Either way they are lucky to have him.

@pedobob863 5 жыл бұрын

This is like 2009 level of “let’s play” like when ragequit recorded his gameplay with a camera. But hell am I gripped at the accuracy and knowledge. This is amazing and thank you scott manley for letting me find these people. I know this isn’t a lets play.

@dkluempers 5 жыл бұрын

My wife just came home and I told her what you did to simulate this. I was just so excited to tell her about this. She just rolled her eyes at me. :)

@jacksonmacd 5 жыл бұрын

Same reaction here...

@yorgle 5 жыл бұрын

This episode is a great companion with the "13 minutes to the moon" podcast. I understood the context of all that Mike was explaining here from that series. It's like the podcast/series gave explanations about everything, but here we get a more in-depth view into the AGC side of it all and how it actually looked as it happened. This is all so amazing!

@jacksonmacd 5 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@hydroalternation 5 жыл бұрын

This is the only television worth watching right now i'm staring at the screen just as i did 50 years ago thanks for bringing back my youth and excitement for something that has kept me dreaming all these years. Cheers

@VijayKumar-dn4pz 5 жыл бұрын

This has to be the greatest labor-of-love project that I've ever seen. Bravo.

@aldunlop4622 4 жыл бұрын

I just stumbled onto this and I have to say I’m flabbergasted. The amount of work that must have gone into this is astounding, great work!

@rosswaring2835 5 жыл бұрын

What an amazing achievement. The dedication, capability and tenacity of doing what you have done with the AGC is astounding! You guys are so good.

@kellingc 5 жыл бұрын

I had a smile the whole first simulation, asnd just stared in awe on the second one. You guys have done a yeoman's job on this. Congratulations.

@DanielPalmans 5 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite channel on youtube. Not just for the Apollo videos but all the other too. Marc is unbelievable there is nothing he can't fix or know! Love it!

@er1073 3 жыл бұрын

On 16 July 1969 I turned 17 then 4 days later Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. I thought that it was amazing back then and today too. The shuttle was great too but this was the best in the space program for me. Thank you for the simulation it was good and amazing that you can do this with actual hardware from back in the 60s.

@jaysbob 5 жыл бұрын

This was absolutely breathtaking. Thank you for making this video and thank you to Mike and everyone else on the AGC resto team that made this possible. Deeply impressive on so many levels. Can't wait to see it done with the real hardware!

@jishcatg 5 жыл бұрын

Truly amazing work guys! Mike is a superstar. I know that *technically* it was fun, but still an amazing amount of dedication to get to this point. This series has brought me a lot of joy, and even though I feel a little inept at not being *this* skilled, at least I can understand everything that's going on, and it motivates me to do more myself.

@AlexElectronics 5 жыл бұрын

It's funny how enthusiastically the guidance controller says "Go!" at 27:02. You can even hear Gene Kranz chuckle a second or two later.

@rossvoorheis2391 3 жыл бұрын

I think that would've been Steve Bales. He always yelled really loud; you can hear that in all of his recordings.

@ericw4279 2 жыл бұрын

Kranz seems like a likable guy. Definitely one of the “steeley-eyed missile men” but also seems to have a big heart. I know there were other flight directors during that time that also had a huge impact but Kranz seems to be the most visible. I’m sure a lot of it has to do with the fact that he was on duty during the actual 11 landing and also the Apollo 13 movie which only showed him as the flight director nobody else.

@gwyllymsuter4551 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderfully enlightening series. Watched each episode several times and with each pass I learn something new. Kudos

@skfalpink123 5 жыл бұрын

That was absolutely hypnotic! Seriously guys - what you have done is simply fantastic and has brought back to life an entire school of technology that was in danger of vanishing into history.

5 жыл бұрын

Thank You guys, i Love The work to revive The agc and recove this history.

@slowneutron6163 Жыл бұрын

A former friend of mine once asked me how we went to the moon with 60's technology. I said with aid of some very, very intelligent people with a deeper understanding of the way things work than you or I will ever hope to have. Thank you for revealing some of the wonderful engineering that the Apollo project gave birth to. Turns out my friend was watch a WHOLE lot of Russia Today at the time he started to question the moon landing. So once again, thank you guys for showing that Apollo was very real. That it worked. And even that it took quite a bit of luck to get to the moon.

@SuzuranMajere 5 жыл бұрын

I always thought doing this was IO prohibitive without a dedicated parallel IO board. Bravo!

@mikestewart8928 5 жыл бұрын

I did too! It just suddenly occurred to me a few weeks ago that with the monitor, I can just poke erasable values into the AGC over a fast USB link. The way NASSP works with virtualagc makes it super duper easy to patch in calls to the monitor. The changes are almost totally confined to apolloguidance.cpp. Here's a PR against my fork that shows all of the changes I've made if you're interested: github.com/thewonderidiot/NASSP/pull/1/files

@ajvmichal 5 жыл бұрын

Mike Stewart amazing world we live in where I can watch a video of a restoration of this machine with you and mark explaining all so well and then in the comment section a few minutes later get a live link to the source code changes

@ajvmichal 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you all so much for this work and making us lurkers feel like we are there in the room

@larryh8072 5 жыл бұрын

I have watched this entire series, and being hooked on all things Apollo and the AGC since I was a teenager I have to say Mike's knowledge and thorough understanding of the AGC is amazing. I can picture Mike working for Draper labs developing this hardware way back in the day. I bet Eldon Hall could have used Mikes help in the development of the system. This is one of the best series ever. Way to go guys.

@Consequator 5 жыл бұрын

Great job guys, this has been a very interesting series to follow so far. Great to see all the old together with new tech to troubleshoot faults and the process to go about it.

@latmask00 5 жыл бұрын

Man what a ride this has been. Thank you for taking us all along. Good luck at MIT.

@chris24gone 3 жыл бұрын

this simulated landing using the real AGC (vis a vis FPGA) was as exciting as the spaceX landings. truly awesome and inspiring.

@revocnc 5 жыл бұрын

This series must be broadcast on a documentary channel. Awesome work!

@ZeroSpawn 5 жыл бұрын

Mike is a BEAsT! Thank you for the detailed commentary during the flight guys!

@eddievhfan1984 5 жыл бұрын

A little expansion on the "instability" mentioned in the video: The LM's descent propulsion engine (DPS) was ablatively cooled, where it would actually take off material from the inside of the engine nozzle to keep the rest from melting. The method of engine throttling used in the DPS (a pintile injector, like you can later find on SpaceX's Merlin engine) concentrates the propellant reaction effects on the walls of the combustion chamber, and if the flow isn't in the right place, the engine could burn through the nozzle.

@Patchuchan 5 жыл бұрын

I think they just ran them full throttle most of the time when they used it on the Delta-P stage.

@eddievhfan1984 5 жыл бұрын

@@Patchuchan True, although those were modifed to be fixed thrust, anyways. *shrug*

@dkluempers 5 жыл бұрын

I am an Orbiter fan and this has to be the most incredible modification to it in quite some time. Outstanding!!!!

@qwertyFUBAR 5 жыл бұрын

BEYOND WORDS to watch this series from the beginning! I was 5 when I watched the Moon landing. Many of us have emotions even we catch a glimpse of sad, disconnected Apollo hardware. This is more than a dream come true -- it is like an unexpected stroke of good fortune that was unlooked-for! Your effort towards gathering as much of it and breathing new life into it as possible to relive its finest moments... is EXEMPLARY in the finest tradition... not only is it a masterpiece of technical know-how, it is proof that we humans can imbibe a bit of our souls into our machines and ascribe to them dignity and sense of purpose... just as (for say) an old cherished horse who is also a friend. On this one the light blue colors of the control panel simulation were distracting and hard to read at a glance though. Try to find a way to photographically simulate the grey of the original panel and the effect of cabin lighting, if you go on tour. Bravo!

@peter_hauer 5 жыл бұрын

Great work. The whole series is inspiring to watch. Thank you.

@rnb250 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome series! I understood

@mikehartmann5187 5 жыл бұрын

You guys are all steely-eyed missile men in my book. Congratulations to all those involved in this effort!!

@AlanCanon2222 3 жыл бұрын

With solder rosin steam in their eyes too... doing microsurgery on failed solid state on the AGC!

@Soggytiri 5 жыл бұрын

Well done! Great work by the team in restoring this bit of history!

@timothyseidel527 5 жыл бұрын

I have really enjoyed watching your restoration of the AGC videos. Wishing you best of luck with your 50th anniversary Apollo 11 landing at MIT.

@noth606 5 жыл бұрын

Great work guys, this is amazing! What an adventure to get here and an incredible amount of work and dedication by the team, but it's a great show of what can be accomplished when the right minds and hands get together with a single purpose.

@alpcns 5 жыл бұрын

Epic! Buzz has to see this, and Collins. Maybe Gene, too. Man, this is so cool. You guys deserve a presidential medal.

@DrTWG 5 жыл бұрын

Erm What about Charlie , Dr Rock and the stamp collector ? The former 2 we're LMPs !!!

@innovationtalk3734 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Michael Collins saw this before he died

@hongkongcantonese501 10 ай бұрын

This is going to be a new hobby. Wonderful work!

@andrewreynolds912 Жыл бұрын

You guys really put this thing to actually simulate what it did when it landed on the moon is amazing!!!!

@phillip5245 5 жыл бұрын

Beats the heck out of playing Apollo 18 on the C64....

@espacemaxim 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff, crazy how much mankind has evolved from the Bart Sibrel days...there might be hope after all

@funksterdotorg 5 жыл бұрын

This is just plain wonderful. Have enjoyed the whole series.

@mitfreundlichengrussen1234 5 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy watching people who know what they are doing. What a superb job. It´s amazing watch and to realize how "thin the ice was ( restart your computer during the approach brrrrrr...." the astronauts have been walking on 50 years ago. Now: lets build the rest (rocket and the other stuff) and fly to the moon again.... - I send at least 2 Million thanks to the team rebuilding the AGC.

@milanhorvat6494 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! Brings back so many memories! I used to play this back around 2006 as a child for many days on end... But of course without the real AGC. :)

@dirty364 Жыл бұрын

This channel is epic!! I’m amazed at how skilled everyone is! Thank you for the great content

@stephendavies923 5 жыл бұрын

Simple. This whole series has been and is awesome!

@konsul2006 5 жыл бұрын

Living spirits of Apollo. Thank you for sharing.

@diegormz82 2 жыл бұрын

what an amazing simulation! I'm a big fan of the Apollo program videos and all related with the moon landings, I can say now I'm impressed of how Mike literally built from the old components a functional AGC! congratulation guys!!

@tncorgi92 5 жыл бұрын

Scott Manley sent me here. Subscribed!

@michaelkilgoresr.8361 3 ай бұрын

This is impressive!!! Absolutely Terrific work!!!

@HGR693 5 жыл бұрын

SUPER VIDEO !! Awesome work !!! super interesting , listening to your explanations of each control and indicator. Thankx

@t-diddy1268 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing work, cheers to you and the team!

@scotty3034 4 жыл бұрын

I just can’t my head around the fact that you guys are doing this simulation with an actual Apollo Guidance Computer. Incredible feat.

@AlanCanon2222 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, not even emulation, but actual original hardware, perhaps the last complete one of its kind. Astonishing rebuild from the bare metal up to developing the IO interface, all the simulation software, all in real time, and the frickin original 1968 computer thinks it's happily landing on the moon, over and over again. This Apollo 8 baby says, the kids are all right.

@MainFrameGamerz 7 ай бұрын

Amazing job, I've been following along. Still boggles the mind what they were able to accomplish with what they had to work with.

@magomat6756 5 жыл бұрын

Congrats you guys this is magic to go back in time. Hats off for mike.

@janniswiese 5 жыл бұрын

This is just gold. Awesome, well done guys! (I still want Mike's T-Shirt 😅)

@TheSonicfrog 5 жыл бұрын

Belt and suspenders ... you betcha! Fantastic job ... you guys are beyond awesome.

@LaneSurface 5 жыл бұрын

Damn, these videos just keep coming. Loving it!

@JMacQ77 5 жыл бұрын

Your project has been amazing and wonderful to watch. Thank you and your team for all the work in restoring a piece of American history. And as a bonus, Mike is indescribably cute! I love you guys. Cheers!

@MemorialRifleRange 5 жыл бұрын

With all the work you guys have done, you should be given partial ownership of the AGC IMO.

@littlejason99 5 жыл бұрын

LOL, with all the work they've done, they could probably build their own identical component replicas!

@pdppanelman5889 5 жыл бұрын

The value they have added represents a considerable amount. The owner should consider putting it into the hands of the team for safekeeping.

@MemorialRifleRange 5 жыл бұрын

@@pdppanelman5889 Indeed! At the very least From a piece of memorabilia scrap to a functioning AGC unit is nearly immeasurable in terms of value added.

@SuperAWaC 5 жыл бұрын

the owner ultimately doesn't owe them anything, though. if anything, they owe the owner everything because the owner put the entire value at risk of them doing something weird and permanently damaging it. not that it was likely, but it was still possible. how about they not worry about money and just enjoy the fruits of their labors, for the sake of preserving history?

@ml.2770 5 жыл бұрын

@@NerdyNEET Probably bought from NASA back in the day as surplus. Totally OK it is in private hands.

@Frobard 5 жыл бұрын

Astounding! You guys are my heroes! I was 18 when I watched Neil step down on the moon. Now I expect to watch Mike step down from a SpaceX lander in the near future. Marc and the other guys in the team will probably be in control in Houston. Many thumbs up from a space/computer fan in Sweden! /Anders

@Quietruck 5 жыл бұрын

Hope we get to see your MIT demonstration. That would be wonderful.

@ChristopherEast 5 жыл бұрын

This is an amazing series. Marc is amazing, and Mike is just....wow! He's got brains, and looks, he is going to make someone very happy if he hasn't already done so! Good luck at MIT, take looks of photos. I hope you have lots of fun there.

@user-mx9xv1je3t 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic, I was a college student. Got home in time to see this as it happened!

@ml.2770 5 жыл бұрын

OK, all flight controllers go-no-go for powered descent Retro? Go FIDO? Go Guidance? Go Control? Go TELCOM? Go GNC? Go EECOM? Go Surgeon? Go CAPCOM we’re go for powered descent. This channel has made the Apollo 50th so much more real for me. Thank you.

@truesus1718 5 жыл бұрын

Should read: Guidance? GO!

@ml.2770 5 жыл бұрын

@@truesus1718 I know right! I actually considered that. That guy was keen.

@Membrane556 5 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool seeing Orbiter/NASSP use a real AGC in place of the emulated one.

@peterkierst2744 4 жыл бұрын

Extremely impressive. Well done!

@Eo_Tunun 5 жыл бұрын

From A to Z a seriously great series of videos of a great effort at restoring one of technology history's most significant devices. [Speech Centre Error detected: No words found. Overflow condition occured. Insert emotional supervaltives here.]

@HebaruSan 5 жыл бұрын

Those landings were beautiful. I want Mike to pilot the LM when I ride it!

@macieksoft 5 жыл бұрын

Finally they hooked it to NASSP like i was recomending to do. Good job guys.

@SomeGuyInSandy 5 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting! Great work from a great team! Thank you!

@eddievhfan1984 5 жыл бұрын

WHOOOOOOOO! NASSP REPRESENT!!!!! I've been waiting for this for ages!

@pebblegarden 5 жыл бұрын

This video made my weekend. Well done!

@KostasMakris_aircraft_engineer Жыл бұрын

Totally impressed. What brilliant mind Mike! Congratulations is not enough

@timcurran7841 5 жыл бұрын

Good luck at MIT. Hope the original programmers are there. Don Eyles has been doing some media and his book is terrific. He flew sims beside John Young in the LM simulator at the cape. See if he can still land it! I’m backing the boy genius Mike. Can’t wait to see the MIT video!

@ThomasGabrielsen 5 жыл бұрын

I've followed this project from the beginning and bow my head in admiration for you guys amazing skills and your never-give-up attitude. I've read a lot and watched all the videos available on about core rope memory and the guidance computer, at least all I have found, and I think this is so super cool (first time in my life I use that phrase) that it blows my mind. You should go on a world wide tour with this setup. I'm pretty sure the e.g. Museum of Technology ("Teknisk museum") in Norway would payed quite a lit for having his on display for a week. Maybe store it behind bullet proof glass and maybe let have a DSKY interface like "Applied Science" made to visitors type in commands. Anyway what your plans are with this in the future I send a huge thank you for bringing Apollos AGC computer back to life. PS: Maybe core rope memory is the way to go to store important data archives. I mean not exactly like they did it back then, but using the idea. It is indeed robust by its design.

@petercarlsson6606 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing video, simulation and work from everybody. Thanks a lot for this great video.

@robpersons 5 жыл бұрын

I have love this series and have shared with other nerdy computer associates.

@bits2646 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, I'm really impressed with the whole agc sim interface

@nisstyre911 5 жыл бұрын

This is just amazing! Would love to have a flight sim like that myself! Awesome job guys!

@djmips 5 жыл бұрын

If you have windows: orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ - orbiter flight sim sourceforge.net/projects/nassp/ - apollo module for oribiter tutorial -> www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=1303

@RodCornholio 4 жыл бұрын

One of the most impressive things anyone has done.

@mumblbeebee6546 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you both for this! It's sad to not have the original AGC which was a masterpiece of restoration, and I gotten quite used to seeing it - as you must have too? But landing the LEM... you make it look like any old sim game, but the knowledge (and crashing experience :) and skill you have acquired is clear. Gives me goosebumps! Also, your commentary is really useful, and smooth as if scripted. Thanks again! Oh. I am late for work....

@bennylofgren3208 5 жыл бұрын

In a way, it _was_ scripted... the script was written in real time 50 years ago. 😊

@xoio 4 жыл бұрын

Had the privilage of having a beer with Martin Schweiger back in 2006 after Orbiter 2006 came out. As members of the Orbiter community back then, we simply said... Why not have a meet-up, so we all did, Martin included. Good job guys!

@user-ri9hb6th1w 9 ай бұрын

This is very very cool man .... The tech they used for the whole program was just amazing ....

@FLDiver80 5 жыл бұрын

I kinda never want this series to end!

@stevemccroskey1211 5 жыл бұрын

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue...

@petesapwell Жыл бұрын

Just incredible, a level of intellect that astounds me, and I think I’m a pretty clever dude…Hats of to you Mike!! Amazing

@gmcjetpilot 5 жыл бұрын

Well done I was edge of seat as if it was real. Amazing accomplishment 50 yrs ago

@czyzjr 5 жыл бұрын

nice job boys! i was 6 when they landed and remember it. I"m now a flight s/w engr for military and commercial s/c.

@gavincurtis 5 жыл бұрын

Wait, the mathematics and physics actually allow real simulation of landing on the moon from data stored in a 50 year old moon lander computer? AWESOME! But muh 6000 year old Earf is supposed to be flat with a dome and stuff. These landing computers were all hollywood! 😂😂😂 This has been one of the most historical and awesome restoration projects ever on KZfaq. You returned to life a piece of real innovation and ingenuity lost from our past. An example of what humans can acheive when they work together instead of war...space explorarion. One of the most amazing machines ever built by human minds and hands on Earth. The electronic brain to take us to the moon and back and you guys saved it. Bravo!!!

@jmarston1043 5 жыл бұрын

seriously how are you not a real astronaut? your knowledge of all the controls just amazes me considering the equipment/controls were made 50+ years ago, and to then integrate it with todays technology to creat probably the greatest flying sim EVER, i am a huge space fan especially with the Saturn V and Space Shuttle history and to think you can re create those events is unbelievable, 1 clever guy