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**rprosperi** · 08-23-2016, 01:31 AM

(08-22-2016 11:57 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote: One thing puzzled me about the statement of one of the AGC programmers. He said his code is still on the moon and, not surprisingly, he felt really good about that. Not to take anything away from him--those folks truly achieved something great--but isn't the only thing remaining on the moon the lower, descent stage of the LM, and wasn't the LM AGC in the ascent stage? Wouldn't it have to have been to navigate the LM back to rendezvous with the command module? And after rendezvous, wasn't the ascent stage jettisoned and it would impact the moon and be destroyed? So the AGC would be destroyed too?

That is all correct, I'm pretty sure the AGC was in the ascent stage. But bottom line, his code really is still on the moon, though the hardware around it may be a bit (pun intended) worse for the wear.