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Ain Laats Instructing an Astronaut on the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System.
Photograph of MIT engineer Ain Laats (standing) and an unidentified astronaut ...More

Apollo Astronauts at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
Photograph of the Apollo astronauts at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory during ...More

Astronauts Receiving Instructions from MIT Engineers on the Apollo Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System
Photograph of astronauts Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (standing left) and Alan ...More

MIT Engineer Ain Laats with Apollo Astronauts
Photograph of MIT engineer Ain Laats (standing) peering through the telescope ...More

Apollo Astronauts and MIT Engineer Manny Kramer with the IMU
Photograph of Apollo astronauts and MIT engineer Manny Kramer (far left, explaining ...More

Ain Laats Instructing an Astronaut
Photograph of MIT engineers (including Ain Laats second from left) and Apollo ...More

Apollo Astronauts Michael Collins, James Lovell, and MIT Engineer Manny Kramer with the IMU
Photograph of Apollo astronauts Michael Collins, James "Jim" Lovell, ...More

Apollo Astronaut Donn Eisele with the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System
Photograph of Apollo astronaut Donn Eisele in-front of the Primary Guidance, ...More

Apollo Astronaut Using Scanning Telescope
Photograph of an Apollo astronaut looking through the scanning telescope eyepiece ...More

Apollo Astronaut Michael Collins and MIT Lab Engineer
Photograph of Apollo astronaut Michael Collins speaking with an unknown individual ...More

Apollo Astronaut Donn Eisele with the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System Simulator
Photograph of Apollo astronaut Donn Eisele (sitting) looking through the scanning ...More

President Lyndon B. Johnson Awarding Doc Draper the National Medal of Science
Photograph of Charles "Doc" Draper receiving the President's ...More

President Lyndon B. Johnson Awarding Doc Draper the National Medal of Science
Photograph, with note and signature of President Lyndon Johnson, of Charles ...More

Design Evaluation Test Summary
A list of tests performed on the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System ...More

Printed Circuit Boards For Block II Apollo Guidance Computer
A printed circuit board comprising part of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). ...More

Apollo Jacquard Wire Loom and Braided Memory
Image of a Jacquard loom used to create braid memory. Braid memory is read-only ...More

Earth Landmark Navigation Reference with Space Sextant
Illustrated diagram of the view of an Earth landmark navigation reference as ...More

US and Russian Manned Space Flight Programs
Hand drawn graph comparing the progress of the United States' and the Soviet ...More

Apollo Guidance Computer Interfaces
Diagram illustrating how the components of the Primary Guidance, Navigation, ...More

Apollo Failure Analysis Chart
A chart listing and analyzing failures/alarms, the component that failed, description ...More

Apollo Telescope View - Orbital Navigation
Image demonstrating how an Earth landmark would appear through the on-board ...More

Ray Parks and Bill Eng for Tech Talk
Photograph of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory technical artists, Ray Parks and ...More

Inertial Measurement Unit Layout
Cutaway diagram of the Apollo Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) depicting the ...More

Noise Level Tests - Apollo Guidance & Navigation System
An unknown MIT engineer performing tests on Apollo Primary Guidance, Navigation, ...More

Apollo Moon Landing Simulation with Mock-Up of the Lunar Excursion Module
This image depicts an Apollo lunar landing simulation with a fake lunar surface ...More