Digital Apollo Quotes

“In the real-time pressure of a lunar landing, an extensive social network of engineers focused on two men and a computer in an air-conditioned bubble, sitting on top of a rocket engine with a telescope and a control stick.”
― David A. Mindell, Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

“A history of simulation technology in the space program has yet to be written, but it would show how the creation of virtual reality preceded, rather than responded to, the creation of real-time computer graphics”
― David A. Mindell, Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

“When the astronauts in the LM interacted with the LM computer in the final phases of their descent, they were talking to a little piece of twenty-four-year-old Eyles’s brain.”
― David A. Mindell, Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

“the GSOP theoretically contained everything required in advance to produce the program code for each mission. In practice, the GSOPs tended to document code after it was written, rather than specifying it beforehand.”
― David A. Mindell, Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight