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SpaceX launches a new crew to the space station to replace NASA's stuck astronauts

And it's more amazing when you consider that in the days of the Mercury and Apollo programs, they did it largely with slide rules. The computers they had then had less computing power then my smart watch.
 
What exactly is morally awful about Musk. He supports a politician that does not maintain your political views?
 
I applied for a job with RCA at Edwards Air Force Base, having to do with communications connected to the space shuttle program. Part of the tour was walking on the top of the platform they used to load the space shuttle onto the back of a 747 jet. As I walked near they edges they noticed a fear of heights, and I did not get the job.
 
Right. Like restoring free speech to a platform that has been proved to be in bed with the rat party and deliberately censoring opposing viewpoints. Oh...and working to identify fraud waste and abuse in our government.

Yes...I can see why so many leftists hate him.

FM
 
X Factor said:
It wasn’t completely dead but more on life support and for our astronauts to get to space they needed to hitch a ride on Russian rockets.
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Actually NASA has been firing on all cylinders for some time now. SpaceX has been a prolific launcher since long before Space Force. And as for NASA, from New Horizons to Perseverance to James Webb, they’ve stunned again and again and again.
 
MAGAnificent said:
And it's more amazing when you consider that in the days of the Mercury and Apollo programs, they did it largely with slide rules. The computers they had then had less computing power then my smart watch.
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They loaded programs with 8 tracks.

It is worth mention that a computer using tubes that could do what a smartphone does would be the size of Tucson, 6 floors tall.

This what 5 Meg looks like. (Also Margaret Hamilton, who is right up there with Grace Hopper for sheer genius.)

 
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