Bob Collins
Apollo 8 wasn’t a moon-landing mission; it was a test of whether the spacecraft could get there. So Frank Borman never got a chance to do what only 12 humans have ever done: walk on the moon.
Here’s the thing. He didn’t want to. Read more →
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Tag: Apollo
It’s almost as if the original coders knew that someday we’d be looking at their work from tiny computers held in our hands, computers with the power that would have filled several rooms back in the day.
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One wonders if the astronauts considered that at some point in the future, we would be sitting on our couches with a computer on our laps many times more powerful than their entire spacecraft’s technology, reading their scribbles.
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