Digital Apollo
- ISBN-10
- 1547291796
- ISBN-13
- 9781547291793
- Pages
- 364
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-05-11
- Author
- William Jayden
Description
As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped monitoring the computer and began flying the spacecraft, relying on skill to land it and earning praise for a triumph of human over machine
