{"id":103417,"date":"2016-09-04T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T07:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103417"},"modified":"2016-09-04T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T07:27:29","slug":"south-african-hacker-saves-first-nasa-computer-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/103417-south-african-hacker-saves-first-nasa-computer-in-space","title":{"rendered":"South African hacker saves first NASA computer in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tshwane computer engineer has tracked down one of the great treasures of the computer age \u2013 the first space flight guidance computer, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadget.co.za\/the-hacker-the-scrapheap-and-the-first-apollo-computer\/\">Gadget.co.za<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The computer belongs to Apollo-Saturn 202,&#8221;the very first Guidance and Navigation Control\u00a0computer, used on a test flight of the Saturn 1B rocket and the Apollo Command and Service Modules&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It had been lying dormant in storage for over 40 years (alongside other pieces of scrap) and it took painstaking gathering of a wide range of evidence, from documents to archived films to convince Rautenbach that he had found the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>Rautenbach then quietly uploaded videos of his discovery to his Youtube channel, detailing his findings.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why there are no South African Servers for Battlefield 1 yet\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102989-why-there-are-no-south-african-servers-for-battlefield-1-yet.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why there are no South African Servers for Battlefield 1 yet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to What to watch on Netflix and ShowMax this weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/103295-what-to-watch-on-netflix-and-showmax-this-weekend-23.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">What to watch on Netflix and ShowMax this weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How pre-installed software is wrecking your laptop\u2019s gaming performance\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/103121-how-pre-installed-software-is-wrecking-your-laptops-gaming-performance.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How pre-installed software is wrecking your laptop\u2019s gaming performance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incredible story of how a South African hacker saved one of the most historically important computers of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":103421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8585],"tags":[31,18073,197,8882,5832,2163,183],"class_list":["post-103417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-apollo","tag-hack","tag-hacker","tag-nasa","tag-south-africa","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}