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The Apollo Flight Guidance Computer Software Collection [Hamilton] consists of reports, memoranda, and related material documenting the Apollo flight guidance software developed by Margaret Hamilton's team at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (CSDL) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The collection also includes Hamilton's 1986 handwritten notes on selected documents.

Identifier

NASM.1986.0158

Creator

Hamilton, Margaret Heafield, 1936-

Date

1965-1986
bulk 1965-1972

Provenance

Donated by Margaret Hamilton, gift, 1986-1987.

Extent

1.22 Cubic feet (2 legal document boxes; 1 slim legal document box)

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of reports, memoranda, and related material documenting the Apollo flight guidance software developed by Margaret Hamilton's team at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (CSDL) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Documents include a printout from an Apollo guidance computer software simulation; software program change routing slips; reports from Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control (formerly Apollo Guidance and Navigation); a preliminary flight plan for Apollo 7; memoranda for the submission of MIT/IL Software Development Plan, critiquing each new official version of the flight system; guidance system documents using assorted programs, including Sundisk, Skylark, and Luminary; and an oversized Charles Stark Draper Laboratory brochure. When she donated the collection in 1986, Hamilton composed handwritten notes on the history of selected documents, which are included with each document and identified in the finding aid as "[Note from Margaret Hamilton]."

Arrangement note

The materials are arranged chronologically.

Rights

Permissions Requests

Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

Citation

Apollo Flight Guidance Computer Software Collection [Hamilton], Accession 1986-0158, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Topics

Project Apollo (U.S.)
Space vehicles -- Guidance systems
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Type

Collection descriptions
Archival materials