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To: GingisK

The math is virtually impossible without navigation computers, which we did not have in 1969


192 posted on 02/14/2026 3:33:52 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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If you would have read any of the material I posted to you, you would have seen that the star readings were keyed into the command modules’s navigation computer just for that very reason.


193 posted on 02/14/2026 3:37:00 PM PST by GingisK
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Apollo Guidance Computer
194 posted on 02/14/2026 3:39:32 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Jan_Sobieski

That is not true. You flat earthers are an embarrassment.

I have a theory why the hate and crazy ludicrous lunar landing denial. It’s because white guys accomplished the greatest human endeavor ever and feminists cant stand it.


195 posted on 02/14/2026 3:43:27 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: Jan_Sobieski
The math is virtually impossible without navigation computers, which we did not have in 1969

While Apollo had a navigation computer, the ship captains of old did not and still managed to use sextants. The math of navigation is trigonometry and time X velocity. It isn't deep, it is merely laborious when done by hand.

Celestial navigation measures three angles rather than one. This is a spherical problem rather than planar. No biggie.

If you do not know how to work a trig problem, how do you imagine yourself qualified enough to make these decisions?

200 posted on 02/16/2026 2:31:57 AM PST by GingisK
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