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Info created by NASA Langley Research Center - restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:14, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:14, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment love all those buttons, switches and mechanical counters! Any chance we can have a bit more information on what kind of machinery we actually see here? --El Grafo (talk) 09:57, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You don't recognize a computer when you see one, I'm shocked! Joking aside, Back in those days they needed one fridge-sized computer for every maneuver on any space flight. On the top left "fridge" you can read "Automatic ~~Angel~~Angle Control", that one was dedicated to just compute/calculate the angle to keep the spacecraft on course. The "fridge" below, labeled Knuckle/Roll Power" is taking care of the roll thrusters of the module. On the first missions, they couldn't build a computer large enough to compile all this info into say an auto pilot, so the results were read of the dials since they didn't use printers, then put together on paper and adjusted using slide rules. God, I feel old knowing how this worked! This could of course be one of the backup systems or an older model, used for the sake of the photo, and not linked to the actual mission; but that is how I read the labels. It's not unlike the very first computer I used. --Cart (talk) 10:25, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Automatic Angel Control? 60s theoscience was more advanced than I thought. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:53, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry small typo. :) --Cart (talk) 11:23, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The middle "fridge" reminds me of the IBM OS/360 they used on the Apollo program. --Cart (talk) 11:17, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was a bit in a hurry when I wrote that – thought it was obvious that "machinery"=computer ;). But thanks a lot for the explanation – I know a thing or two about aircraft, but that doesn't help much with spacecraft … --El Grafo (talk) 13:45, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support NASA's first black female engineer. Good quality for the time. Cmao20 (talk) 10:18, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Of course. --Cart (talk) 10:26, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --S. DÉNIEL (talk) 12:06, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Peulle (talk) 15:42, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Abzeronow (talk) 15:51, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Yann (talk) 16:08, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Aristeas (talk) 17:04, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Cayambe (talk) 20:01, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Charles (talk) 21:35, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Great nomination! Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:03, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --BoothSift 04:09, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:42, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:35, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- 🇪🅰〒ℂ🇭🅰- 💬 18:16, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Pile-on support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 23:47, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Wilfredor (talk) 00:05, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Llez (talk) 03:48, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 04:30, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Notable person in a meaningful context -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:40, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 20 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 13:17, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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