Appollo guidence computer (Explained)

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Did you know NASA used a computer weaker than your calculator for the first ever moon landing? In 1969, during the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA used the Apollo guidance computer to send astronauts over 384,000 km through space. This thing had less power than a modern microwave and just 64 kilob of memory. That's smaller than a single blurry image today. Its processor ran at only 0.043 MHz. For comparison, your phone is millions of times faster than that computer. And yet somehow this tiny computer guided astronauts through space, calculated landing data in real time, and helped humans land on the moon for the very first