{"id":6765,"date":"2023-09-23T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/23\/sunburst-and-luminary-an-apollo-memoir-by-don-eyles-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"sunburst-and-luminary-an-apollo-memoir-by-don-eyles-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/23\/sunburst-and-luminary-an-apollo-memoir-by-don-eyles-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunburst and Luminary &#8212; An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eotnk1wVSB8?si=eVkJKp-oCYV6QQpI?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Buy the book from the Amazon link on the right side of the page >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>There is so much great stuff in this 2018 video. I am definitely going to buy the book. <\/b><b>This is another of those things that reminds me (a hardware guy) of the importance of <\/b><b>software (Sunburst and Luimary were the names of two programs that Eyles wrote to enable the LEM to land on the moon). <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Asked about one of the biggest ancillary contributions of the Apollo program, Eyles immediately says, &#8220;integrated circuits.&#8221; They used three terminal NOR gates. Lots of them. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; They never had a hardware failure in the Apollo computers. Demonstrating a classic troubleshooting technique, when they discovered what they thought was a hardware failure, they ran the program on another computer. The problem was also there, so they knew there had been no failure on the first machine. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The LEM simulator was very cool. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Eyles&#8217; ability &#8212; in two hours &#8212; to write the code for the automatic landing program that Astronaut John Young was asking for, then have it flown on an Apollo mission to the moon was very impressive. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to the MIT Museum for posting Don&#8217;s talk. And thanks to HackADay for alerting us to it.<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Also, take a look at this one: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oi4h04ZgQsQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oi4h04ZgQsQ<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>And this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cmAc7t7tAlc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cmAc7t7tAlc<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy the book from the Amazon link on the right side of the page >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There is so much great stuff in this 2018 video. I am definitely going to buy the book. This is another of those things that reminds me (a hardware guy) of the importance of software (Sunburst and Luimary were the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/23\/sunburst-and-luminary-an-apollo-memoir-by-don-eyles-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunburst and Luminary &#8212; An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,359,143,32,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-ics","category-software","category-space-program","category-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11273,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/11273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}