058 Moon Landing 50th Anniversary Series part 1: Programming the Moon Landing Guidance Computer | Don Eyles
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Don is the guy who programed the moon landing phase in the Lunar Module's onboard computer 50 years ago for NASA's Apollo Missions! It was such a treat to chat with Don and hear his stories and perspective on the Apollo missions!
Don Eyles worked with astronauts and NASA flight controllers to improve the software in response to the operational goals for each mission, and he received the NASA Public Service Award in 1971 for devising a timely workaround for a problem that jeopardized Alan Shepard's mission to the Moon.
Grab your copy of Don's book, Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir: https://amzn.to/2J657wh
Learn more about Don at https://www.doneyles.com
And get more about Don's time with the Apollo missions at http://www.sunburstandluminary.com
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| 0:00.0 | Three, two, one, zero, |
| 0:03.8 | no. |
| 0:04.8 | Tranquality base here. |
| 0:06.8 | The Eagle has landed. |
| 0:07.8 | You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm at the foot of the ladder. |
| 0:12.0 | That's one small step for man. |
| 0:15.0 | One giant leap for man. |
| 0:17.0 | Beautiful. |
| 0:18.0 | Beautiful. |
| 0:19.0 | You. |
| 0:20.0 | Magnificent sight on here. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome to episode 58 of Curiosityness and part one of a four-part series on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. So if you didn't know, it's the 50th anniversary since we landed on the moon. |
| 0:43.3 | And I got some pretty cool guests on here to talk about that. |
| 0:47.3 | People who were actually there and lived it and experienced it. |
| 0:50.3 | So check out all... |
| 0:52.3 | This is all coming. This whole series, four parts. This is part one. I got on |
| 0:57.2 | Don Isles and he was literally there working for NASA and MIT and he programmed the moon landing |
| 1:06.7 | guidance computer. Like the moon landing phase for the lunar modules on board computer, he literally |
| 1:13.1 | programmed that. And so he just has a ton of stories and information about being there at this time, |
| 1:19.7 | you know, and seeing all this stuff. So it was really such a treat to talk to Don and, you know, |
| 1:26.2 | hear his stories and his perspective and everything like that. |
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