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Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience

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Figure A: The first manned spaceflight program to use computers continuously in all mission phases was Apollo. Here mission controllers watch computer-driven displays while astronauts explore the lunar surface after a computer-controlled descent.

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Table of Contents

 

• Foreword.
• Preface.
• Acknowledgements.
• Computing and Spaceflight: An Introduction.

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Part I : Manned Spacecraft Computers

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• Introduction to Part One.
• Chapter One: The Gemini Digital Computer: First Machine in Orbit.
• Chapter Two: Computers On Board The Apollo Spacecraft.
• Chapter Three: The Skylab Computer System.
• Chapter Four: Computers in the Space Shuttle Avionics System.

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Part II: Computers On Board Unmanned Spacecraft

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• Introduction to Part Two.
• Chapter 5: From Sequencers to Computers: Exploring the Moon and the Inner Planets.
• Chapter 6: Distributed Computing On Board Voyager and Galileo.

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Part III: Ground Based Computers for Space Flight Operations

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• Introduction to Part Three.
• Chapter Seven: The Evolution of Automated Launch Processing.
• Chapter Eight: Computers in Mission Control.
• Chapter Nine: Making New Reality: Computers in Simulations and Image Processing.

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• Epilogue.
• Source Notes.
• Bibliographic Note.
• Apppendix I: Glossary of Computer Terms.
• Appendix II: HAL/S, A Real-Time Language for Space Flight.
• Appendix III: GOAL: A Language for Launch Processing.
• Appendix IV: Mariner Mars 1969 Flight Program.

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