Robert Stengel remembers the moon landing from rocket landing simulator Watch Video
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Description: Robert Stengel, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, spent much of 1969 working at the MIT Instrumentation Lab, which had the contract to design the hardware and software for the Apollo program's primary guidance navigation and control system. His task was to redesign the manual controls for the lunar module, the part of the rocket that actually landed on the moon. He wrote the computer program, and repeatedly tested the controls in a moon-landing simulator. We interview Stengel ov
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