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> The feats accomplished over half a century ago with the very limited resources of that era are truly astonishing. I'm always amazed by this image of how they
by EarthIsHome 3y ago
> The feats accomplished over half a century ago with the very limited resources of that era are truly astonishing.
I'm always amazed by this image of how they accomplished the rendezvous with the ascent stage. Note the poor condition of the aft panels:
https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-122-19533.jpg https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-122-19533.jpg
Absolutely no excuse why we haven't done it since then when they did it with that, and our technology is so much better now.
- KineticLensman 3y ago> Absolutely no excuse why we haven't done it since then Well there is the fact that Apollo had (at its peak) something like 400,000 people working on it and involved a spend of $164bn (in 2021 dollars) [0]. I think we could get back to the moon if we had that sort of commitment. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Costs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Costs
- booleandilemma 3y agoJust imagine what we could accomplish if we were able to mobilize a massive number of people in this age. A 21st century equivalent of the pyramids or the great wall of China. What will our descendants look at and say "I can't believe they built this 2000 years ago!"?
- blastro 3y agoapple silicon? ;)
- joezydeco 3y agoWe had two highly trained wetware intelligence systems on board Apollo to land that thing successfully. If Apollo 11 was unmanned and that 1202 alarm came up? It probably would have aborted or crashed.
- tabtab 3y agoIt may have landed at a steep angle on a boulder, like Viking 1 did. Fortunately, Viking 1 still worked.