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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (thelemmy.club)
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Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Money and pride. Back then America had something to prove, money was no object. Now it's all about how much it's going to cost.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    We don't have a villainous empire like the soviets to beat there to prove we're better on the world stage. There was a lot of hand work and individual skill/knowledge that designed the rocket nozzles and those people either wrote it in notebooks or didn't write it at all so it was lost. That's what they mean when they say we lost the technology. Try asking your great grandparents for specific details about the career they had 50 years ago and see how far you get.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Not a whole lot of things cost a billion dollars to attempt again. We could put it all together again eventually but the amount of R&D needed to return to where we were just hasn't been worth the benefit. We have countless unmanned craft all over because getting scientific data doesn't require a dude to be there anymore.

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