{"id":10315,"date":"2014-07-06T12:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T02:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=10315"},"modified":"2014-07-06T12:59:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T02:59:27","slug":"sunday-nerding-the-computers-of-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2014\/07\/sunday-nerding-the-computers-of-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Nerding: The Computers Of NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my favourite topics this week: computing, and space.  This video from NASA describing their use of computing to plan, carry out and manage the space program of the 1960&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nrwpXEiTDVk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Although not dated, this video appears to have been prepared in the 1970&#8217;s, as it would seem the moon landings have already taken place, and it speaks of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skylab\">Skylab<\/a> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_program\">Space Shuttle program<\/a>, both of which had their origins in the early 1970&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my favourite topics this week: computing, and space. This video from NASA describing their use of computing to plan, carry out and manage the space program of the 1960&#8217;s. Although not dated, this video appears to have been prepared in the 1970&#8217;s, as it would seem the moon landings have already taken place, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-10315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-sundaynerding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}