Note that this box did not go to the moon, I don't think it would have been in the signal path(if I understand correctly it is a ground unit used to run unit te

Note that this box did not go to the moon, I don't think it would have been in the signal path(if I understand correctly it is a ground unit used to run unit tests on the radio transmission gear). Now as to whether similar loosely specified flipflops were in flight hardware, I have no idea. I also will note that even the much vaunted Apollo guidance computer was a case of worse is better. The Saturn 5, now that had a proper flight computer(the LVDC), designed by IBM, redundant everything, A computer that could not fail. The AGC in contrast not only had no internal redundancy, it was designed to fail (in case of error the system could very quickly reboot and resume running it's program where it left off). However the trade off was that the AGC was half the weight and twice the speed as the LVDC and they could carry two of the things to get the reliability they wanted.