{"id":3965,"date":"2016-07-10T18:08:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T22:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2016-07-10T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T22:11:08","slug":"apollo-11-source-code-made-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3965","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11 source code made public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has just released the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chrislgarry\/Apollo-11\/\" target=\"_blank\">source code used for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You know &#8212; the code in the stack of printouts Margaret Hamilton is showing off in that famous NASA picture.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3966\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/margaret_hamilton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3966\" class=\"wp-image-3966 size-full\" title=\"If this isn't just about the ultimate geek pin-up, I don't know what is.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/margaret_hamilton.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo Guidance Computer project lead Margaret Hamilton shows off the printouts of the AGC software.\" width=\"640\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/margaret_hamilton.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/margaret_hamilton-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apollo Guidance Computer project lead Margaret Hamilton shows off the printouts of the AGC software.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anyway,<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chrislgarry\/Apollo-11\/\" target=\"_blank\"> it&#8217;s up on github<\/a>. It may be a bit more difficult than most libraries to re-use, being written in AGC4 assembly language &#8212; but it&#8217;s an important piece of technological history.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has just released the Apollo program source code on Github. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,279,216,218,306,210,217,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly","category-aviation","category-coding","category-currentevents","category-design","category-digital","category-digitalcitizenship","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}