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The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo 14
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The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo 14
Scott Manley
Published on Aug 31, 2017
Apollo 14 almost never made it to the lunar surface thanks to a hardware failure which caused a short circuit in the abort switch. With the computer seeing the abort switch enabled the software team back on earth had a limited amount of time to figure out how to make the computer ignore the erroneous signal while still performing the landing. This required tweaking program state in memory while the program was running, a delicate operation with dire consequences for failure. No pressure guys.
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Re: The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo 14
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and next to that
The landing protocol in audio and video
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Transcripts are here. The ABORT button issue makes up about half of this page. Discussion of the situation and the edits runs from 104:29 to 107:28, and the actual commanding is from 108:02 to 108:03.
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14.landing.html
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I couldn't understand the procedure fully, found a great explanation here
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14AbortDiscrete.html
, but it doesn't say how did they start the ignition routine after setting the mode flag to P71 (ascent stage abort), nor how did they do it without rewriting the mode flag.
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Discussed by the guy who did it:
https://scitech.aiaa.org/Engineers-Astronaut-Discuss-Their-Apollo-Experiences/
https://livestream.com/AIAAvideo/scitech2019/videos/185567202?fbclid=IwAR34NG08sHeSUv2gvzu2GXMqs11Se
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