F8 Fly-By-Wire System (Apollo Guidance Computer Part 31)
We get a chance to inspect the actual Apollo Guidance System that flew in NASA's F8 Digital Fly-By-Wire experimental plane. We explain how it worked, and recover the software from its core rope memory. The result is a bit of a surprise!
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00:00 Summary of previous episodes
02:05 The F8 Fly-By-Wire pallet
03:43 Why Digital Fly-By-Wire?
06:24 NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
08:08 NASA's F8 DFBW program
14:10 Shuttle support missions
15:20 Inspecting the pallet
19:05 Apollo SPS engine
20:43 Core rope extraction
24:58 Liquid Nitrogen cooling
25:56 Reading the core ropes
29:22 Running and explaining the recovered software
32:20 Mike's core rope recovery to date