Object Details
- Designer
- MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
- Manufacturer
- Raytheon Corp.
- Summary
- The "Block I" Apollo Guidance Computer represented the initial design by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory 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.
- This computer is an unflown, fully functional unit. It was built by the Raytheon Corporation, and used about 4,000 Integrated Circuits supplied mainly by the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation. NASA transferred this computer to the Museum in 1972.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19720342000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Navigational
- Materials
- Aluminum Alloy
- Stainless Steel
- Synthetic Rubber
- Plastic
- Copper Alloy
- Paint
- Steel
- Magnesium Alloy
- Cadmium plating
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 62.2 × 39.4 × 14.6cm (24 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.)
- Storage: 78.7 × 48.7 × 22.2cm (31 × 19 3/16 × 8 3/4 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_A19720342000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9f72a6513-239d-497b-a196-cc1c48a077d6
