Apollo Program: Tragedy and Triumph (All Parts)
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Apollo Program: Tragedy and Triumph (All Parts)
This is the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin. We look at how Werner von Braun, a former rocket scientist of the Third Reich, played a leading role in NASA's planning ...
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Think about the Apollo missions for a second: we took men over 200,000 miles to the Moon and brought them back safely using rockets that had less computing power than the smartphone in your pocket. During the frantic Space Race, engineers were forced to rely on primitive technology, slide rules, and sheer genius. The rockets themselves were monumental feats of brute-force engineering, and the guidance systems were often analog, backed up by human calculation. The margin for error was almost non-
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