The Source Code for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Mission Is Now Free on Github

If you lis­ten to the con­spir­a­cy the­o­rists, they’ll tell you that Stan­ley Kubrick helped fake the Apol­lo 11 moon land­ing mis­sion in 1969. Remem­ber the vin­tage moon land­ing footage you’ve seen? Kubrick appar­ent­ly shot the breath­tak­ing video on a sound stage in Huntsville, Alaba­ma, draw­ing on the spe­cial effects he per­fect­ed while shoot­ing 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

That’s how they explain that arti­fact. I won­der how they deal with this?: On Github, you can now down­load the source code for Apol­lo 11’s com­mand and lunar mod­ules. Orig­i­nal­ly writ­ten by pro­gram­mers at the MIT Instru­men­ta­tion Lab­o­ra­to­ry in the mid-1960s, the code, accord­ing to Quartz, was recent­ly put online by NASA intern Chris Gar­ry, mak­ing it freely avail­able to the cod­ing com­mu­ni­ty. You can find it all here and start hack­ing your way through the reams of obscure, vin­tage code. Skep­tics can put their the­o­ries in the com­ments sec­tion below.

via Quartz 

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