Object Details
- 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 piloted mission to the Moon. 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.
- Transferred to the National Air and Space Museum from NASA in 1972.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19720343000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Navigational
- Materials
- Metal housing, containing electronic components, circuit boards inside.
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 61 x 39.4 x 15.2cm (24 x 15 1/2 x 6 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_A19720343000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9d395dfee-c87a-4514-aef7-cfa63cd2e047
