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I actually get choked up watching the appropriate episode of "Moon Machines", the one that covers the MIT team. That project was an 0xCF. But it worked. I was
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I actually get choked up watching the appropriate episode of "Moon Machines", the one that covers the MIT team. That project was an 0xCF. But it worked.
I was 9 when the moon lander landed, but I was still old enough to feel the Sputnik emphasis in tech. I grew up with that program. It was the era of EE programs with 50% washout rates.
We would go to Huntsville, Houston or Cape Kennedy on vacation. It was just like that then.
I don't know how anybody could have survived the first real test of a system like that being on national TV. That's the stuff of nervous breakdowns.
Ad then by '74 we killed it because nobody knew any economics back then. Or maybe because they did.
I want a Mad Men style show about the Apollo program. Oh, why not? Why not?
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> Ad then by '74 we killed it because nobody knew any economics back then. Or maybe because they did. Probably the latter. By the time Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, von Braun and friends were sketching plans for a Mars mission, and pushing for development of nuclear propulsion. According to Wikipedia[0], US Congress saw that and decided to kill the space race, out of fear it will expand beyond the Moon, and consume resources needed elsewhere (like for the arms race). [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA#In_the_space_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA#In_the_space_program
- vanderZwan 10y ago> (like for the arms race) Well, that turned out to be more of a perceived than actual need.
- dominotw 10y ago>I actually get choked up watching the appropriate episode of "Moon Machines", the one that covers the MIT team. Watched this amazing episode on youtube couple of months ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YA7X5we8ng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YA7X5we8ng Truly mind boggling achievement.