Few were more nervous than the young computer programmer who had written the code for the landing. On the Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, WSJ sat down with programmer Don Eyles.

Last week, techies at the code-sharing site GitHub received a treat when former NASA intern Chris Garry uploaded the source code for the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer, reports Keith Collins at Quartz.

The (Surprisingly Funny) Code for the Apollo Moon Landings Is Now on GitHub. BURN_BABY_BURN- -MASTER_IGNITION_ROUTINE. By Jay Bennett Published: Jul 11, 2016 12:42 PM EDT. Getty Images.

The code was written in the late ’60s by Margaret Hamilton and her team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory for the Apollo Guidance Computer. The code is ...

But first, it might help to know a bit about the computer. Apollo 11’s onboard guidance computer had a processing speed of 1 MHz, and had about 4 kilobytes of reusable memory.The original ...

Here then are some insightful Apollo 11 lessons for AI developers, automakers, and tech firms that are creating the software and systems for driverless cars: • Anticipate and code for wayward ...

T he source code from the Apollo 11 guidance computer has been placed on the programming website GitHub and made available to the public.. The pages, which were painstakingly put together from ...

The Apollo 11 Source Code Was Released on GitHub, It's Hilarious. Coders were just as dorky in the 1960s apparently. by Matt Kim. July 10, 2016. NASA.