The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available for anyone to read, download, and tinker with. NASA’s Chris Garry made the code available on GitHub as public domain. The published resource is basically in two large codebases, one set of code for the Command Module (Comanche055) and another for the Lunar Module (Luminary099). These modules both had their own Apollo 11 guidance computers (AGC) upon which to run the code, and were instrumental to the success of the remarkable mission – the first human Moon landing in history.
On the GitHub repo, Garry indicates that this momentous code was digitized by the folks at Virtual AGC (Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer) and the MIT Museum. That means the hard copy of the code held at the MIT Museum has been scanned and proofread for digital distribution. In this particular case, we have reams of machine code now in the public domain, easily accessible online.
