The Apollo guidance computers carried the first digital autopilots flown on crewed spacecraft.
Sources
- The First True Spaceship (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/building-apollo/ (astronomy.com)
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19780015068 (ntrs.nasa.gov)
- https://www.enginehistory.org/Rockets/RPE09.46/RPE09.46.shtml (enginehistory.org)
More in Technology
- FAMAS is described as the first spectrum-based failure-attribution approach specifically designed for multi-agent systems (MASs).
- LCD displays work by twisting liquid crystal molecules with electric fields; without power, some LCDs appear white while others appear black.
- Google X's Project Loon provided emergency internet service to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and was shut down by Google in 2021.
- The primary-source files on the American Memory website were made available for classroom use through the Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources Program.
- Atlas, an AI pathology model developed by Aignostics and the Mayo Clinic, was trained on 1.2 million tissue samples from 490,000 cases.
- FindZebra's search index is built by crawling curated databases including the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man database, the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center, and Orphanet.