Apollo Simulators

Apollo simulators and their associated computer systems were crucial to the success of the Apollo program. No less than 15 simulators trained crews during the Apollo Program.

Among the plethora of simulators, use of the Command Module Simulators and Lunar Module Simulators nonetheless occupied 80% of the Apollo training time of 29,967 hours.

Here are couple of interesting stories of that time and area.

http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch9-2.html

http://klabs.org/history/apollo_11_alarms/eyles_2004/eyles_2004.htm

And some videos:

Some more recent test videos.

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