Episode 220: DOWNLINK--Ron Burkey

from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just

This week in SF history— 25 July 1962: Statement of work issued for LEM (hq.nasa.gov)Spaceflight news— Crew Dragon Explosion Conclusion (spaceflightinsider.com)Short & Sweet— Eight key space observatories renewed (nasa.gov)— Starhopper static fire (nasaspaceflight.com)Interview-- Ron Burkey— Virtual AGC (ibiblio.org)— Java port (svtsim.com)— Scanned original documents (archive.org)— Transcribed code (github.com)

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The Apollo Guidance Computer is famous, but the code it ran likely would have slipped into the fog of history if it wasn't for Ron Burkey's archives.

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