VIEW, the NASA program that drew Apollo’s windows before launch

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 30 Sept, 19:17 UTC

Black Hole (@konstructivizm), posting on X, described NASA’s VIEW program, which showed Apollo crews what space would look like from their windows before they got there. It ran on a UNIVAC 1108 mainframe and was written in FORTRAN V. VIEW calculated the shifting geometry of Earth, Moon, Sun, and…

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• T1VIEW, the NASA program that drew Apollo’s windows before launchRaspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit30 Sept, 19:17