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To: discostu

You need to read “One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon” by Charles Fishman. Fascinating account about the entire process of the moon mission.

As for the computers, it tells how a bunch of middle-aged and older seamstresses SEWED metallic disks into fabric and connected them with conductors to create the programs for running the Command and Lunar Modules. One mistake, and you start over! No backspace key available... Those were the logic circuits. Not really software, more like firmware, I guess.

It is really a great book IMO. I was 9 when we landed and the moon shots got me into engineering. I worked on ICBM’s for a time as a young engineer.


99 posted on 08/24/2023 12:55:30 PM PDT by HeadOn (Love God. Lead your family. Be a man.)
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To: HeadOn

Take a closer look at the lunar and command module computers.

It is not what you think it is:

https://www.aulis.com/pascal.htm

https://www.aulis.com/pascal2.htm


114 posted on 08/24/2023 1:17:34 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: HeadOn

Did our astronauts navigate to the moon using the stars, as NASA said?


119 posted on 08/24/2023 1:20:37 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: HeadOn

I’ve read a few. There was a lot of wild stuff. They were right at the edge of technical possibility. They were making the technology to get that edge. Kinda crazy. And awe inspiring. Which is why I despise all landing deniers. They’re scum.


124 posted on 08/24/2023 1:26:27 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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