Concepts for Project Galaxy
Project Galaxy, proposed at JPL, will enable students, mission planners, and astronomy buffs to fly to any modeled planet, satellite, solar system or black hole in the galaxy or beyond.
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Concepts for Project Galaxy
Project Galaxy will build an astronautical and astronomical simulator that will enable simulation pilots to explore all major celestial bodies in the solar system, and an increasing number of objects in the galaxy.
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Apollo LM guidance computer software for the final lunar descent.
In all manned lunar landings to date, the lunar module Commander has taken partial manual control of the spacecraft during the final stage of the descent, below roughly 500 ft altitude. This report describes programs developed at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, MIT, for use in the LM's guidance computer during the final descent. At this time computational demands on the on-board computer are at a maximum, and particularly close interaction with the crew is necessary. The emphasis is on the design of the computer software rather than on justification of the particular guidance algorithms employed. After the computer and the mission have been introduced, the current configuration of the final landing programs and an advanced version developed experimentally by the author are described.
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