Moon Machines The Navigation Computer (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 45 min | Documentary

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Moon Machines

The Navigation Computer (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 45 min | Documentary

We tell the story of how a group of computer scientists grappled with the challenge of navigation of a round trip to the Moon back in the days when computer code and software hadn't been invented and computing power was a fraction of what it is today.

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22 cast members

Name	Known for
David Mindell Self - MIT Self - MIT See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Bill Stoney Self - NASA Self - NASA See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Robert Seamans Self - NASA Self - NASA See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Charles Draper Self - MIT (archive footage) Self - MIT (archive footage) See fewer
Chip Collins Self - Test Pilot Self - Test Pilot See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Jerry Gilmore Self - MIT Self - MIT See fewer	Stargate (1994)
Dick Battin Self - MIT Self - MIT See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Eldon Hall Self - MIT Self - MIT See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Don Lickly Self Self See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Alex Kosmala Self Self See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Fred Martin Self - MIT Self - MIT See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Hal Laning Self - MIT Self - MIT See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Don Eyles Self - MIT Self - MIT See fewer	From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
Margaret Hamilton Self - MIT Self - MIT See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Malcolm Johnston Self - MIT Self - MIT See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Bill Tindall Self - NASA Self - NASA See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
John R. Garman Self - NASA (as Jack Garman) Self - NASA (as Jack Garman) See fewer	Moon Machines (2008)
Neil Armstrong Self Self See fewer	Forest 404 (I) (2019)
Buzz Aldrin Self Self See fewer	Transformers: Dark of the Moon (I) (2011)
Frank Borman Self Self See fewer	First to the Moon (2018)
Charles Duke Self Self See fewer	Space Warriors (2013)
Eric Sevareid Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Right Stuff (1983)