The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a 1960s time caps

The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in the mid-1960s, the necessary technology did not exist. They had to invent it. The AGC code has been available to the public for quite a while–it was first uploaded by tech researcher Ron Burkey in 2003, after he’d transcribed it from scanned images of the original hardcopies MIT had put online. As enormous and successful as Burkey’s project has been, however, the code itself remained somewhat obscure to many of today’s software developers. That was until last Thursday (July 7), when former NASA intern Chris Garry uploaded the software in its entirety to GitHub, the code-sharing site where millions of programmers hang out these days. Within hours, coders began dissecting the software, particularly looking at the code comments the AGC’s original programmers had written. See http://ift.tt/29tKP0N Via Yusuf Kaka cecilia FXX originally shared: hazzah for nerds