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Apollo 11
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- 1The Apollo 11 Code Is Open Source — and It's Hilarious●The Apollo 11 Code Is Open Source (and it's hilarious)
The source code that guided Apollo 11 to the Moon is publicly available on GitHub, and programmers have been poring over it. Readers are sharing amusing gems from the 1969 codebase, including witty comments left by MIT programmers and a file cheekily named after Shakespeare's 'Burn the witch' line. The mix of pioneering engineering and deadpan humor is delighting a new generation of developers.
Repos
- chrislgarry/Apollo-11 Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules.