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> there is no single mention about new and better instruments that are available now Computers that don't require vacuum tubes? Just to understand the technol
by dsl 7y ago
> there is no single mention about new and better instruments that are available now
Computers that don't require vacuum tubes?
Just to understand the technology of the time: the first automated blood test was invented less than 5 years prior. The scanning electron microscope becomes commercially available 5 years later. The first MRI would happen about 10 years later.
- xenonite 7y agoI certainly agree that there has been a lot of progress over the last 50 years. However I would still like to know which recently devised (or at least improved) instrument lead NASA to open the seals just now. Or isn’t there any?