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It's amazing still to see that they could pull off all those successful missions with barely powerful enough computers and much less sophisticated material scie
by NotSammyHagar 7y ago
It's amazing still to see that they could pull off all those successful missions with barely powerful enough computers and much less sophisticated material science. Look at today when we still struggle with designing and executing reliable rockets.
I believe the moon missions were the peak achievement of humanity to this point (not just the us, is that crazy?). I'm hopeful we'll survive self destruction to go past them eventually.
- qubex 7y agoI look at it differently: I survey how much apparently useless and baroque infrastructure has been overplayed on top of core functionality and dismay. Those were essentially embedded systems running on bare metal; basically “parts of a machine”. Now our systems are far more intricate — but they seem to be far less efficient.
- lisper 7y agoThe risk posture of society in general was very different then. There are a lot of things that were commonly done that would be unthinkable today, most of which have nothing to do with space travel. Letting children play unsupervised, for example.