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Approach Guidance
Diagram illustration of an astronautic flight vehicle's trajectory and ...More
Space Sextant Configuration #2
Image of the Space Sextant used in the Apollo Missions. The Space Sextant was ...More
Space Sextant Configuration #2
Image of the Space Sextant used in the Apollo Missions. The Space Sextant was ...More
Essential Features Of The Integrating Floated Gyroscope
Illustrated diagram of the primary components of an integrating floated gyroscope, ...More
Spheroid Simulation Showing Yaw, Pitch And Roll
Two photographs demonstrating a spheroid simulation. The first image shows the ...More
Braided Wire Memory Ropes
The computers operating instructions were stored in rope memories with microscopic ...More
Fixed Rope Memory
Rope and fixed memory were critical to building a successful guidance computer. ...More
Apollo Optical Simulator
Photograph of the simulator for the Apollo Block I Command Module (CM) optical ...More
Apollo D&C Mock-Up Control Panel
Close up of the control panel on the Apollo Primary Guidance, Navigation, and ...More
Exterior photograph of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
Exterior photograph of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. Image courtesy: ...More
Exterior photograph of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
Exterior photograph of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. Image courtesy: ...More
SXT 3 and AGC 4
Image of the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (PGNCS) simulations ...More
Pressure Suit Test Of Apollo Optical Simulation - March 23rd, 1964
Photograph of an MIT engineer in a pressurized early Apollo astronaut space ...More
Apollo Guidance Computer Simulation
Image of the Apollo Guidance Computer simulation and testing computer equipment ...More
Accelerated Flight Navigation System
Diagram depicting the basic computations required by the navigation system during ...More
Saturn Computer Gravity Computation
Diagram depicting the computation of gravitational forces by the Saturn guidance ...More
Accelerated Flight Navigation
Diagram depicting navigation algorithms used by the Apollo Guidance Computer ...More
Navigation Using Body-Mounted Sensors
Diagram depicting the process of, and algorithms used for, navigation using ...More
Coasting Flight Navigation Computation
Diagram depicting how an estimate of the spacecraft's position and velocity ...More
Weighting Vector Calculation
Diagram depicting the calculation of the weighting vector. The weighting vector ...More
Powered Flight Guidance System
Diagram depicting communication between components of the Primary Guidance, ...More
Velocity-To-Be-Gained Method
Diagram depicting three navigation methods in which the Apollo spacecraft could ...More
Velocity-To-Be-Gained Steering
Diagram depicting calculations required during maneuvers to increase the spacecraft's ...More
Variable-Time-of-Arrival Mid-Course Correction
Graphic illustrating how the angles need for the variable time of arrival mid-course ...More
Ducosyn
Diagram of the ducosyn, which is part of the Inertial Reference Integrating ...More