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*[[NASA]] used 7090s, and, later, 7094s to control the [[Project Mercury|Mercury]] and [[Project Gemini|Gemini]] space flights. [[Goddard Space Flight Center]] operated three 7094s. During the early [[Project Apollo|Apollo Program]], a 7094 was kept operational to run flight planning software that had not yet been ported to mission control's newer [[System/360]] computers. {{Citation needed|date=June 2010}}
*Caltech/NASA [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] had three 7094s in the Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF, building 230), fed via tape using several 1401s, and two 7094/7044 direct-coupled systems (in buildings 125 and 156). {{underdiscussion-inline|Re: Notable applications: JPL}}
*Erhard Glatzel used an IBM 7090 to assist in calculations for the design of the Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 commissioned by NASA. This lens was also used by [[Stanley Kubrick]] to shoot candlelit scenes in [[Barry Lyndon]]<ref>http://www.marcocavina.com/omaggio_a_kubrick.htm</ref>.
*An IBM 7090 was installed at LASL, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (Now [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]).
*In 1961, Alexander Hurwitz used a 7090 to discover two [[Mersenne prime]]s, with 1,281 and 1,332 digits—the [[largest known prime number]] at the time.
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