Apollo 11 Guidance Computer emulated on a Palm Centro Mobile handset

On the Google Code blog today, Nathaniel Manista, posted a note about the open sourcing of the Command Module code (Comanche054) and Lunar Module code (Luminary099) used in the Apollo 11 moon landings.

Yes. The *actual code*. Transcribed from scanned images and converted into an open source project.

This is obviously to commemorate the 40th anniversary of man walking on the moon.

Nifty, eh?

Even more nifty is that a chap by the name of Dean Koska has compiled the Apollo Guidance Control CPU so that it’ll run on a Palm Centro. He then knocked up a simulated display/keypad and published this demonstration video:

More details are on this page here.

You too can use your Palm Centro to get yourself to the moon then.

You’ll just need 363ft long rocket sporting 7.6 million pounds of thrust and a star to steer her by.

In 40 years, I wonder just how powerful the ‘mobile devices’ will be.

Hopefully we’ll have got past the ‘are you sure you want to connect to the internet’ messages from Symbian by then.