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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker
No disrespect to Armstrong and the like but the Astronauts were the button pushing payload of a much bigger grander program. Maybe I am jaded from the years of strapping in student military pilots at the training squadrons and years at fighter squadrons but I really don't find pilots that intelligent, yes they have a very unique skill set and they are smart for the environment they work in. I was referring to the likes of Wernher Von Braun, Tom Kelley and the team at grumman, Thomas Dolan, the people at North American Aviation and the many others that actual conceived and developed the idea that landed a man on the moon.
As for the answer to your questions...I think Leon has given it...technology.
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From the little I know of that period in time, the astronauts had to do a lot more of the operations than these days. I gather that right to the point of landing on the moon it was all pretty much an act of determination as much as one of technology.. but that aside, i wonder how much we can blame the technology.
I regularly see people whack numbers in to a calculator and blindly accept an answer that's out by a factor of 100. I always thought technology was meant to be a tool to support, rather than replace thinking
