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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.
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