Digital Apollo : human and machine in spaceflight /

How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program. As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mindell, David A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Project Apollo (U.S.) > History.
Project Apollo (U.S.)
Human-machine systems.
Astronautics > United States > History.
Manned space flight > History.
Man-Machine Systems
Systèmes homme-machine.
Astronautique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Vol spatial habité > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Aeronautics & Astronautics.
Astronautics
Human-machine systems
Manned space flight
United States
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General
COMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human and machine in the race to the moon
  • Chauffeurs and airmen in the age of systems
  • Flying reentry: the X-15
  • Airmen in space
  • "Braincase on the tip of a firecracker": Apollo guidance
  • Reliability or Repair? The Apollo computer
  • Programs and people
  • Designing a landing
  • "Pregnant with alarm": Apollo 11
  • Five more hands on
  • Human, machine, and the future of spaceflight.

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