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Apollo 11 Computer The LVDC. The Apollo Saturn V LVDC Watching a Saturn V launch is still an awe-inspiring sight but there is far more going on than meets the eye. The Saturn V was far too complicated to fly by hand but contrary to popular belief. It wasn’t the Apollo guidance computer or AGC in the command module doing the job, it was a completely different computer and one which would probably have a bigger impact on modern computers than the AGC, so what was flying the Saturn V rocket. Now as we know that the computers used in the Apollo missions were just a fraction of the power of modern smartphone and to many they just can't believe that you could get to the moon and back with so little computing power but they did. The V2 Rocket. You don’t need a massive computer to fly a rocket, in fact, you don’t need a computer at all, well not in the way they we think of. The V2, the ancestor of the Saturn used gyroscopes linked to graphite veins that sat in the rock...

How did the Apollo 11 Computer work? There has been much speculation by some as to how the flight computer aboard the Apollo missions managed to get men to the moon when it had just a tiny fraction of a computing power of something like a modern smartphone. But this is quite misleading as it was not one solitary computer controlling the Apollo craft. There were four computers and there were no fancy touchscreens GUI's or other things in a typical computer of today to waste resources on. Apollo Guidance Computer. (AGC). The first of the 4 computers was the Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC). This got the rocket from the launch pad to the Earth orbit. Then there was the Apollo guidance computer or AGC this is the one that most people think of.    View of Apollo 11 Saturn V from the top of the launch tower July 7, 1969.        There were in fact two of them. One in the comm...