[nascarnation]

I always tell my grandkids, the moon landing was done with stuff calculated on slide rules, drawn on vellum with pencil, and fabricated by high school graduates running manually controlled machine tools.

[HippyLoggerBiker]

But did you tell them about the “Old Negro Space Program
“?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H8TJv0C58Q

[duckbutt]

I worked with a consultant once who had retired from NASA and was heavily involved with the space program. He said you could put all the computing power that was used for the first moon landing on to a 3” floppy disk.

[Oratam]

I always tell my grandkids, the moon landing was done with stuff calculated on slide rules, drawn on vellum with pencil, and fabricated by high school graduates running manually controlled machine tools.

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using feet and inches

[tang-soo]

I always tell my grandkids, the moon landing was done with stuff calculated on slide rules, drawn on vellum with pencil, and fabricated by high school graduates running manually controlled machine tools.

30 seconds of hilarity ...

Missing footage from Apollo 11