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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