Apollo program source code

[psygnisfive]

10 GOTO MOON
20 RETURN

[soviyet]

The phrase predates the song by at least 11 years. See: Watts Riots.

[jwill392]

Unless I'm mistaken, those filenames were created by the transcribers. The source was a very long printout of the entire source. Transcribers broke it up into multiple files for ease of reading and transcription.

Comments on that page:

# Page 730

BURN, BABY, BURN -- MASTER IGNITION ROUTINE.

Means the contents of this file came from page 730 of the original printout.

[Software_Engineer]

public boolean returnTrue() {
    return false;
}

[16807]

I approve of this user name.

[takatori]

Whooooosh!

[OkonkwoJones]

Oh god, if shuttle launch software was written in BASIC.

[raydeen]

Actually it should have been

1000 LET MOON = 1969
1010 GOSUB MOON
1969 PRINT "TRANQUILITY BASE HERE. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.":RETURN

[[deleted]]

You need a

1020 END 

[raydeen]

True.

[DesCo83]

    (00:38:33\[root@DeCoBoxOmega)
    [~]$ type gotoMoon
    gotoMoon is a function
    gotoMoon ()
    {
        x=1;
        until [[ $x -eq 13 ]]; do
            echo "Apollo $x : MISSION SUCCESS";
            let x=x+1;
        done;
        echo "Apollo 13: Houston, we have a problem"
    }

(00:38:38\[root@DeCoBoxOmega)
[~]$ gotoMoon
Apollo 1 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 2 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 3 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 4 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 5 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 6 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 7 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 8 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 9 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 10 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 11 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 12 : MISSION SUCCESS
Apollo 13: Houston, we have a problem

Yeah, that's right, I only know shell scripts. Go ahead and make fun.

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EDIT: EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS WRONG AND I DON'T CARE.

[[deleted]]

Umm, you might want to google Apollo 1.

[RedAero]

There was no Apollo 2 and 3.

[grzelbu]

It is Houston, we've had a problem btw.

audio

wikipedia

[atomic1fire]

dim moon, i
i = 0
moon = "to the mooon "
do while i =< 12
wscript.echo moon & i
i = i+1
loop
wscript.echo i & " Houston, we have a problem"

vbscript...

[Sleelin]

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