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Reply To: 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 – First Moon Landing (July 20, 1969-2019)

July 19, 2019 at 5:56 pm #1416184

limburger

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Practically every tv channel has been doing something related to the moon missions.
I caught a bit of one in which they mentioned that they had to do the landing manually due to a computer glitch or something.
Wiki says the source of this was discovered in 2005 … yep, debugging is hard. I’m glad I’ve got modern tools to help, because you really need all the help available when doing this sort of thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

And speaking of names of those who are forgotten …
I’m sure everyone remembers the name of the first man on the moon.
Some might even know the lunar module pilot (hint : he’s not a toy ;-)). But I seriously doubt that anyone who isn’t a space geek even knows the name of the 3rd person in that crew without using Google.