Re: New shuttle

I read an intersting book not long ago called. "Failure Is Not An 
Option" which was written by one of the flight controllers of the very 
early NASA days, back before even the first manned flight.

They combed the world for geeks. Each and everyone could slide rule you 
into the ground.



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>>Considering a gameboy is more sophisticated than 
>>the Apollo computers, its a wonder they could do it at all.
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> Yeah, this is always a wonder to me too.  I'll bet they could have saved a lot of weight if they had smaller microchips and such as we have now.  We could have brought home more rocks anyway.
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> I wonder how much of the mission calculations were done with a slide rule and paper and pencil?  Don't know the ages of most of the folks here, but I'll bet that Bill Highfield, for one (since I know his age), never had to ever use a slide rule.  Just mentioning it makes me feel old since I used it in HS math.
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> Craig
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