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Don was 27 years old when he wrote the Apollo 14 inflight patch. Chew on that for a moment.
by joezydeco 10y ago
Don was 27 years old when he wrote the Apollo 14 inflight patch. Chew on that for a moment.
- Piko 10y agoDamn... 27 myself and here I am, moving pixels around on web applications for customers that don't know what they want.
- InclinedPlane 10y agoThe average age of NASA engineers at the time of Apollo 11 was 28.
- ddalex 10y agoI think this was instrumental in their success - older people are more cautious their approach. Younger people don't know what can and can't be done and are way more Liberal in taking risks. I also think of this as related to the second system syndrome - Apollo was the first system for a lot of these engineers, and doing lots of things for the first time ever. People were bold and cautious at the same time. The Space Shuttle was the second system - an way over engineered system that did not reach the targets it was designed for, and was successful only through large amounts of money being thrown at the problem.