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Topic: Your most amazing fact about Apollo
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DChudwin
Member Posts: 1110
From: Lincolnshire IL USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-13-2010 08:22 AM
   
Getting back to the original thread "Your most amazing fact about Apollo"--From a political point of view, what amazes me was that Apollo had enough White House and congressional support to allow NASA to receive 5% of the U.S. federal budget in the early 1960's. That figure is a little more than 0.5% today. In relative terms, NASA is being asked to perform its mission with a tenth of the resources it had during Apollo. Underfunding a program is a sure way to kill it and in my opinion it appears we may be making the same mistake made with Constellation all over again. |
jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 08-13-2010 09:23 AM
I'm gonna change mine... one of the most amazing facts, in my opinion, is that Apollo got to the moon with two computers with a combined memory of 152 kb. By comparison, the SIM card in a US wireless phone contains 64 kb! |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2458
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 08-13-2010 09:57 AM
As I said earlier in this thread and thanks to the dedicated ladies knitting circle who put together those computers. |
jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 08-13-2010 10:19 AM
I agree. Several of my friends were amazed when I told them that fact. They had no clue!  |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2458
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 08-13-2010 04:29 PM
Based on timing of the Apollo 16 launch, and assuming the launch was horizontal and not vertical, then Usain Bolt would clear the tower before the Apollo - just! |
Playalinda
Member Posts: 152
From: Peoria, AZ, USA
Registered: Oct 2009
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posted 08-13-2010 05:28 PM
The most amazing fact to me is that the first stage of a Saturn rocket used "only" five engines versus the Soviet Union N-1 Rocket that used a first stage - Block A with 30 (thirty!) engines. Also the fact that there was no launch failures ever for the Saturn V versus the N-1 that suffered four out of four launch failures. |
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