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The sign which accompanied the Apollo Command Module Guidance & Navigation station test article.

It read


Apollo Command Module Guidance & Navigation Station

This station includes a digital computer which stores data and provides solutions to guidance and navigation problem. The right side of the computer faced into the Command Module. On it are the eyepieces of the scanning telescope and the sextant and, at the far right, the display and keyboard panel which was used to enter information and display answers. The Apollo Command Module Computer was developed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 
Sign accompanying Apollo Command Module Guidance & Navigation Station at National Air and Space Museum
Time picture taken Tue Jun 19 13:33:06 2007
Location picture taken Apollo to the Moon Gallery
National Air and Space Museum
Washington, DC
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