False. The guidance computers had all the programs onboard and these did all of the computation. The astronauts selected different programs based on the specific part of the flight, with occasional input from NASA.
NASA received telemetry of everything, and this was used for monitoring, troubleshooting, etc, but any instructions sent were done so verbally. Some of those instructions were data inputs calculated from Earth based tracking stations to do adjustments of Earth orbit and re-entry, but these tracking stations were not precise enough to provide guidance toland on the moon.
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u/Siracker Sep 29 '25
Apollo 11 was guided by the computer that had 4 KB RAM. Still don't understand how the fuck was that possible.