{"id":12957,"date":"2014-04-04T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2014-04-04T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:51:50","slug":"virtual-agc-home-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12957","title":{"rendered":"Virtual AGC Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Apollo spacecraft used for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_program\">lunar missions in the late 1960&#8217;s and early 1970&#8217;s<\/a> was really two different spacecraft, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Command_Module\">Command Module (CM)<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_Module\">Lunar Module (LM)<\/a>.\u00a0 The CM was used to get the three astronauts to the moon, and back again.\u00a0 The LM was used to land two of the astronauts on the moon while the third astronaut remained in the CM, in orbit around the moon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/apollo\/ForDummies.html\">Virtual AGC Home Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Virtual AGC project provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_computer\">virtual machine<\/a> which simulates the AGC, the DSKY, and some other portions of the guidance system.\u00a0 In other words, if the virtual machine\u2014which we call <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">yaAGC<\/span>\u2014is given the same software which was originally run by the real AGCs, and is fed the same input signals encountered by the real AGCs during Apollo missions, then it will responds in the same way as the real AGCs did.\u00a0 The Virtual AGC software is free of charge, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/apollo\/download.html\">can be obtained for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or as open source software source code<\/a> so that it can be studied or modified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apollo spacecraft used for lunar missions in the late 1960&#8217;s and early 1970&#8217;s was really two different spacecraft, the Command Module (CM) and the Lunar Module (LM).\u00a0 The CM was used to get the three astronauts to the moon, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1289,114,645,513],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-apollo","tag-computer-architecture","tag-history","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12958,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions\/12958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}