To put things into perspective, if you own an iPhone, you hold in your hand more processing power than every NASA computer in existence in the early 1960s, says 'One Giant Leap' author Charles Fishman. (via hereandnow)
July 16 marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, the mission that brought human beings to the surface of the moon for the first time.
The Apollo program"unleashed the digital age" — something NASA and its hundreds of thousands of scientists, mathematicians and technicians still don't receive enough credit for, Fishman says. In this July 20, 1969 photo made available by NASA, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. "I don't think it was very expensive. To me, that's one of the myths of Apollo that's worth unpacking. Apollo cost $19.4 billion. There were two years of the Vietnam War each of which cost more than the entire space mission. Apollo lasted from '61 to '72 — let's call it $20 billion.
“We were aware of a new scent in the air of the cabin,” said Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, “that clearly came from all the lunar material that had accumulated on and in our clothes.” To Armstrong, it was “the scent of wet ashes.” To his Apollo 11 crewmate Buzz Aldrin, it was “the smell in the air after a firecracker has gone off.”
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