{"id":482,"date":"2009-05-25T19:08:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T23:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2009-05-25T19:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T23:08:33","slug":"mit-giant-leaps-celebrates-40th-anniversary-of-the-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"MIT Giant Leaps Celebrates 40th Anniversary Of The Moon Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<div style=\"float: left;\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/apollo-11-bootprint.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"image of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission (Credits: NASA)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" title=\"image of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission\" src=\"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/apollo-11-bootprint-low.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"350\"><small>Credits: NASA<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">Beginning in August 1961, the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (later known as the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory) developed the Apollo Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (PGNCS). The PGNCS was an inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft to navigate during periods when communication with Earth was interrupted. Both the Apollo command module (CM) and lunar module (LM) were equipped with a PGNCS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">This summer, June 10-12, MIT is hosting a celebration to honor those who made the Apollo Program possible. The highlights of the event are the Giant Leaps Symposium, In Memoriam: Robert Seamans, and Tours of MIT space labs.  For more information, you can visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/apollo40.mit.edu\/index.html\">MIT website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, from June 10 to June 12, MIT is hosting a celebration to honor those who made the Apollo Program possible. The highlights of the event are the Giant Leaps Symposium, In Memoriam: Robert Seamans, and Tours of MIT space labs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[247,246,130],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-apollo","tag-giant-leaps","tag-mit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}