What a weekend!

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu May 4 13:45:25 2000

John Wilson writes:
> Forgive my ignorance, I was just a kid at the time, but weren't the
> lunar landers abandoned to crash-land on the moon after the trip was
> over? So is this stuff from prototypes or am I missing something?

I recently read somewhere that around 150 AGCs were built, and about 75
used in space. I'm very skeptical of that number, but it does makes me
wonder how many of them were involved in each mission. Assuming that
they were also used on Apollo-Soyuz and the Skylab missions, that makes
about 16 missions, so they would have had to use about nearly five per
mission to accout for 75 of them.

I was of the impression that they were designed for a tight fit in an
odd-shaped space in the command module; was the same computer used in
the lander as well, or in other parts of the spacecraft?
Received on Thu May 04 2000 - 13:45:25 BST