{"id":171379,"date":"2016-07-11T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T09:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=171379"},"modified":"2016-07-11T11:40:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T09:40:43","slug":"apollo-11-source-code-on-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/171379-apollo-11-source-code-on-github.html","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11 source code on Github"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NASA intern Chris Garry has\u00a0posted\u00a0the Apollo Guidance Computer source code <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chrislgarry\/Apollo-11\" target=\"_blank\">on GitHub<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/07\/10\/apollo-11-source-code-on-github\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The code has been in the public domain for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Developers are using Github&#8217;s commenting system to crack\u00a0jokes, such as this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chrislgarry\/Apollo-11\/issues\/3\" target=\"_blank\">Apollo 13\u00a0&#8220;bug report&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A customer has had a fairly serious problem with stirring the cryogenic tanks with a circuit fault present. To reproduce:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Build CSM<\/li>\n<li>Perform mission up to translunar coast<\/li>\n<li>During translunar coast, attempt to stir cryo tanks<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If a wiring fault exists, the issue may be replicated. Be aware that this may be hazardous to the tester attempting it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Apollo 11 code also contains a few jokes. On line 666 of the lunar landing routine, the programmer included the comment &#8220;numero mysterioso&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More\u00a0software news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/163918-radical-free-programming-campus-in-johannesburg-officially-opened.html\"><strong>Radical free programming campus in Johannesburg officially opened<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/159089-top-programming-languages-in-the-world.html\"><strong>Top programming languages in the world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/152037-top-10-programming-languages-for-2016.html\"><strong>Top 10 programming languages for 2016<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136148-most-popular-programming-languages-on-github-2008-to-2015.html\"><strong>Most popular programming languages on Github: 2008 to 2015<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The source code for the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer is now on Github.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":165686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,10262,11253],"class_list":["post-171379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-apollo-11","tag-github"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171441,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171379\/revisions\/171441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}