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The mountain of prior art being... one rocket that had very different requirements?
by fastball 1y ago
The mountain of prior art being... one rocket that had very different requirements?
- sho_hn 1y agoApollo also invented, funded and productized a lot of modern embedded computing and computer manufacturing, to keep in our lane here. Obviously SpaceX has access to a very different tech environment that yes, Apollo helped push forward. Manufacturing the Apollo Guidance Computer (which wasn't in the rocket per-se, but was wired up to it and could fly the rocket in certain scenarios) alone consumed around 40% of the US' entire IC production capacity at the time.