"It Was Impossible"— The Starry-Eyed Dream that Launched Us to the Moon 50 Years Ago This Week

The Sun Also Rises Radio Show ^ | 15 July 2019

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50 years ago this summer, the U.S. landed men on the moon. We’ve all seen the grainy video footage of Neil Armstrong. We’ve heard the recording of his famous words about the “small step" and the "giant leap." And in our imaginations, this unbelievable achievement has essentially been distilled down to that. But this accomplishment was the result of a massive team of people laboring for a decade on an effort unlike anything that came before it. And it was driven largely by a desire to keep the world from being enslaved to a most dangerous ideology. In this episode, we examine what made this "impossible" dream happen, and what it means for mankind 50 years on.

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My engineering professor in 1971 insisted that we read a sliderule to 2 digits past the mark.

I could beat anyone with a calculator, with the answer, using the slipstick through the mid 1970's. Then I finally bought my first TI.