'I believe this computer basically changed the world.' The electronic brain from an Apollo lunar lander is the first on which human lives directly depended. Fifty years later, a look at the effort to reboot the machine that put astronauts on the moon.
In a Texas warehouse in 1976, Jimmie Loocke bought two tons of scrapped NASA equipment.
Years later he realized it included a computer from an Apollo lunar module like the one used to guide the lander to the surface of the moon during Apollo 11. Fifty years after that mission, computer restoration experts in Silicon Valley are trying to get his computer working again. Video by Jake Nicol and Robert Lee Hotz
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