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The digital computer in its application as an automatic checkout system for the Saturn/Apollo program was a critical tool in the United States’ program to land man on the moon in this decade. Saturn/Apollo weighs 3,000 tons and towers 364 feet above the ground. The vehicle and command module have more than eight million parts. Even with the diagnostic or checkout computers that monitor each step in the sequence from assembly to launch, it still takes 100 engineers and 10 miles of tape, storing more than 2.5 million words, to ensure that the Saturn/Apollo system is ready for launch.
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Sternberg, S. (1969). Automatic Checkout Equipment—The Apollo Hippocrates. In: Rabinowitch, E., Lewis, R.S. (eds) Men in Space. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6588-4_16
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