Artifact Details

Title

Kayton, Myron oral history

Catalog Number

102635830

Type

Document

Description

Former NASA guidance and navigation engineer Myron Kayton discusses the use of computers in spaceflight, particularly in the Mercury, Germini, Apollo, and shuttle programs.

Date

2006-08-05

Contributor

Kayton, Myron, Interviewee
Spicer, Dag, Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

45 p.

Category

Transcription

Subject

Kayton, Myron; Cooper Union; Ford Motor Company, Aeronutronic Division; Harvard University; NASA; Atlas; Titan; Minuteman; Sputnik; Buran (Soviet space shuttle); AVCO; Kennedy, John F.; Grumman Aircraft; Rockwell; Boeing; IBM; TRW

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Lot Number

X5691.2010