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What's your favorite spaceship? (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Apollo Lunar Lander. The only real space ship we ever built. (I guess we built another one for the next trip now, though, so I'll go with "ever flown")

People can say it's ugly all they want, but, as an engineer, it's exquisitely designed for its purpose. That's true beauty to me.