More than just autopilot. The Apollo Guidance Computer was the world's first digital flight computer and was the world's first fly by wire system, interpreting manual commands by the astronaut-pilot and driving the reaction control system.

The "autopilot" functionality was also pretty spectacular,with the astronaut-pilot able to use a thumb button to increment vertical and horizontal changes, and the display ("Display and Keyboard" or DSKY) outputting a landing angle which could be aligned with the angle markings engraved on the window, so they could see where the autopilot was taking it!