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Buch in guter Erhaltung, Einband sauber und vorwiegend unbestoßen, nur im Kapital gering berieben, Seiten hell und sauber, ohne Einträge, Buchblock fest, Kopfschnitt gering unfrisch, Schutzumschlag gut, As Apollo 11`s Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer`s software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped monitoring the computer and began flying the spacecraft, relying on skill to land it and earning praise for a triumph of human over machine. In Digital Apollo, engineer-historian David Mindell takes this famous moment as a starting point for an exploration of the relationship between humans and computers in the Apollo program. In each of the six Apollo landings, the astronaut in command seized control from the computer and landed with his hand on the stick. Mindell recounts the story of astronauts` desire to control their spacecraft in parallel with the history of the Apollo Guidance Computer. From the early days of aviation through the birth of spaceflight, test pilots and astronauts sought to be more than ?spam in a can? despite the automatic controls, digital computers, and software developed by engineers.

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