Pretty wild how great the ‘70’s tech has held up! Not sure our modern stuff could do what this project has!
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51 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln 6 Mar
Yeah, it always amazes me that the tech that brought us to the moon now fits in a simple smartphone...
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120 sats \ 2 replies \ @gmd 6 Mar
honestly the we never went to the moon conspiracy is so enticing... how the hell did we do all of that stuff without computers???
truly amazing engineering feats
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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 6 Mar
The way I see it is we did not give a shit about security at alllllll I mean even with the Space Shuttle each launch I want to say there was something stupid like a 1/100 chance the Shuttle would blow up before reaching orbit which is just absurd for the early 2000s!
The USSR lost a still unknown number of people because they really went YOLO with it all. During that era we "luckily" only lost the 3 Apollo people on the ground during Apollo 1 testing. During Gemini though when we did the first person outside of the capsle that guy almost died because we didnt know that the human body gets extremely ridged in space and he more or less got stuck... the other guy with him had to work hard to pull him back in.
It was so bad there were discussions on if they couldnt get him back in that they would cut him lose and let him drift off. With the SpaceX mission for the first Private Spacewalk it is why the future NASA Administrator only went out half way. Anymore and unless you have a super special suit like on the ISS you cant move.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 6 Mar
Neil Armstrong backwards is "Gnorts, Mr Alien". Coincidence, I think not!
(not mine)
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 Mar
This is absolutely fascinating. Honestly, just the fact we can communicate with them from so far away is astounding
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DEADBEEF 6 Mar
I love that we are still getting useful science from these probes all these years later. It is going to be a sad day when power gets too low for anything to run anymore.
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