Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Raytheon Corp.
- Summary
- This an unflown but complete "Block I" Apollo Guidance Computer. Block I represented the initial design to meet NASA specifications for on-board guidance, navigation, and control needed for a Lunar Mission. It was replaced by a more advanced design, called "Block II," as the Apollo program matured. Block I computers were flown on three unmanned Apollo tests between August 1966 and April 1968.
- Apollo Guidance Computers were designed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and built by the Raytheon Corporation. Each used about 4,000 Integrated Circuits, which at that time represented a new and untested technology.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19720340000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Navigational
- Materials
- Metal housing, electronic circuits and circuit boards inside.
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 62.2 x 39.4 x 14cm (24 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19720340000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv92bacc34d-f3ea-4c4c-9e3f-cf3714d05a0e
