How They Built it: The Software of Apollo 11

Rarely do I simply link to another blog, but Todd Weiss’s How They Built it: The Software of Apollo 11 is a phenomenal piece that I simply have to pass along in its entirety.  In honor of the recent 40th anniversary of the moon landing, it is my pleasure to invite you to read about the software that sent Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on that historic 8 day, 500,000 mile round trip to the moon and back.  It begins with “When Apollo 11’s Lunar Module landed on the Moon 40 years ago today, the software that helped take humans to another celestial body was essentially built using paper-tape rolls and thick cardstock that was punched with special holes…”