&gt; <i>Frankly, I wouldn&#x27;t trust 1970s era automation to land the spaceship I&#x27;m in.</i><p>This comment led to me looking up a few details of the lunar landings on Wikipedia; pretty interesting stuff. Apparently the Apollo 14 trusted the computers and the engineers back on Earth enough to reprogram the things on the fly, although the radar system was still buggy - but I&#x27;m not sure if the latter counts as software: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apollo_14#Lunar_descent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apollo_14#Lunar_descent</a>