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NASA and Fortran

JohnNichols
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‎04-11-2021 10:25 AM
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I was a watching a show about Mission Control and the lady being questioned on what she did - said -- I am the guy with the flat top haircut and I knew exactly who she meant. 

I have some Fortran code from 1976 from NASA, but did NASA use Fortran for the missions - Apollo etc..?

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Steve_Lionel
Black Belt Retired Employee
‎04-11-2021 01:46 PM
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The onboard computers were very specialized and basically used assembler or machine code - no high-level languages.

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