2007-06-14 11:44:12 · 7 answers · asked by anonymous 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes during the first lunar landing during descent, the nav computer overloaded and had to restart around 3 times. During the retstarts and afterwards the craft was flown manually anyways.
2007-06-14 11:50:03 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. During the Apollo era the computers crashed every now and then and the astronauts were frequently forced to do the calculations themselves with pen and paper and those logarithm sticks they had before calculators.
2007-06-14 20:28:26 · answer #2 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heck, as others have already said, it happened a lot. Let's not forget the earlier flights used 1960s computer technology. In fact, I recall reading that John Glenn ended up flying his Mercury capsule himself due to technical problems during America's first orbital flight.
2007-06-14 21:45:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a common occurance.
Not A Space Agency is crap from its political cynosure administration to its loathsome smoke and mirrors programs to its purely awful friends-of-the-White House favored-bidder hardware. NASA attempted publications are massively rejected by refereed technical journals. NASA started its own journals (in which researchers are embarrassed to be coerced into contributing).
2007-06-14 19:22:27 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apollo 13"s computer went off line a few times, and then they just shut the entire craft down... I am an Apollo 13 specilist... :-)
2007-06-18 14:13:03 · answer #5 · answered by Lexington 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes when different hardware is engineered in other countries computer logic software has a bad time with plug and play hardware...( Solar panels, Electric grid, Booms,)
"Houston we have a visual" , Do you copy ? ( Beep)
2007-06-14 20:56:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did apallo 13's crash?
2007-06-14 19:21:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋