Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Raytheon Corp.
- Summary
- The "Block I" Apollo Guidance Computer represented the initial design by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, to meet NASA's requirements for on-board Guidance, Navigation, and Control 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 unit. It was built by the Raytheon Corporation, and used about 4,000 circuits.
- Transferred from NASA to the Museum in 1972.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19720341000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Navigational
- Materials
- Metal housing, with electronic parts inside.
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 64.1 x 39.4 x 14cm (25 1/4 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
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Exhibit Station
- Human Spaceflight
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19720341000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv951f11032-44e2-4ae0-b540-1c9d10a8d075
