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Digital Apollo : Human and Machine in Spaceflight.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (368 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262266673
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Digital ApolloDDC classification:
  • 629.47/4
LOC classification:
  • TA167.M59 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Content -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Human and Machine in the Race to the Moon -- Chapter 2 Chaffeurs and Airmen in the Age of Systems -- Chapter 3 Flying Reentry: The X-15 -- Chapter 4 Airmen in Space -- Chapter 5 "Braincase on the tip of a firecracker": Apollo Guidance -- Chapter 6 Reliability or Repair? The Apollo Computer -- Chapter 7 Programs and People -- Chapter 8 Designing a Landing -- Chapter 9 "Pregnant with Alarm": Apollo 11 -- Chapter 10 Five More Hands On -- Chapter 11 Human, Machine, and the Future of Spaceflight -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Cover Image.
Summary: How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.
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Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Content -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Human and Machine in the Race to the Moon -- Chapter 2 Chaffeurs and Airmen in the Age of Systems -- Chapter 3 Flying Reentry: The X-15 -- Chapter 4 Airmen in Space -- Chapter 5 "Braincase on the tip of a firecracker": Apollo Guidance -- Chapter 6 Reliability or Repair? The Apollo Computer -- Chapter 7 Programs and People -- Chapter 8 Designing a Landing -- Chapter 9 "Pregnant with Alarm": Apollo 11 -- Chapter 10 Five More Hands On -- Chapter 11 Human, Machine, and the Future of Spaceflight -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Cover Image.

How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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