Costliest Computer Error Ever
Its July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 mission was close to touchdown on the moon. Neil Amstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michel Collins checking last-minute preparation for landing. Over their, onboard computer something started flashing it was Error 1201 followed by error 1202. Human beings first landing on the moon is jeopardized by two computer errors
Apollo 11 was the first moon lander to carry humans to the moon. During the height of the cold war, both the USA and USSR wanted to put their men on the moon. History has picturized the famous speech of John F Kennedy, stating. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” With funding from the USA government, NASA was able to plan the Apollo mission as fast as it can.
Apollo 11 was one of the first space vessels with Onboard computers much as we have in our modern cars. The onboard computer is in charge of navigation and crucial components of the space vessel. The smartphone from which you might be reading this article is many times powerful than the Apollo Guidance Computer. The Apollo 11 computer had a six-slot logic module in which the code was woven in. 1,45,000 lines of code were written, and it created one of the famous computer science photos of all time. It was Margret Hamilton from MIT who was in charge of the command module and lunar module standing next to the code she wrote.
