"The roll rockets were designed for a maximum thrust of 40 pounds and the pitch and yaw rockets for a maximum thrust of 113 lbs, at an altitude of 200,000 feet."
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Jarvis, Calvin R.; Lock, Wilton P. (1965). Operational Experience With the X-15 Reaction Control and Reaction Augmentation Systems. NASA. OCLC 703664750. TN D-2864.
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Spacewar! - Original 1962 code on PDP-1 emulator http://
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Compare to Orion III docking at Space Station V @NASASpaceflight Chris B - NSF on Twitter: "ATV-5: Europe's ATV undocks from the ISS - for the final time. http://
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@chr1sa "3D Robotics Opens Its Flight Control App For Drones To Developers http://
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NEIL ARMSTRONG'S LUNAR LANDER TRAINER ACCIDENT - YouTube https://
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Crazy Engineering: Mars Helicopter - https://
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Bob Balaram - Chief Engineer - Mobility and Robotics Systems - JPL
the large SERVICER job [...] first performed average-G navigation, then guidance equations, then throttle and attitude output, and then the updating of displays — each part using the outputs of the ones preceding.
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"(he [Armstong] noted the speed, range, and altitude covered by the LM during its descent was similar to that of an X-15 flight).1" Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight - David A. Mindell - Google Books
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"All of the programming was done with punch cards..." page 52 Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight - David A. Mindell
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"One day Kosmala, a programmer, went to the MIT library and looked up a series of star coordinates to align the inertial platform, which he then embedded into the code. That star catalog survived into the final version and became the basis for the astronauts' navigation to the moon." page 147 Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight - David A. Mindell - Google Books
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Apollo Lunar Landing Simulation - YouTube https://