![]() There were ulcers, heart attacks, heavy drinking, chain smoking, abandoned families, divorces and the ever-looming threat that the Soviet Union would steal the prize. These were years of 60-to-80-hour work weeks. When mistakes were made, scapegoats were found. It was an era of unquestioning trust of young engineers, trial-and-error design, blank checks to big aerospace corporations and gruff management practices. The success of Apollo 11 depended on a lot of things that seem unlikely or intolerable today. Though Bridenstine is confident and believes private investors will help support his effort, many past attempts to reinvigorate the human space program have started on high hopes and fizzled. He is overseeing a plan to return to the moon by 2024 and put a female astronaut on its south pole to investigate frozen water there. The current NASA administrator, Jim Bridenstine, takes a far more optimistic view, saying technology would make the journey safer and cheaper than in the 1960s. “We haven’t had the conviction since then,” he said in an interview. Until then, “nobody knew much about programming a spacecraft guidance computer,” so the job went to someone just out of college, one player in a project that employed 400,000 Americans. “I fear that we no longer have the ability to do what we did in the 1960s,” wrote Don Eyles, a mathematics graduate who in his 20s helped produce the navigation software for the lunar module. ![]() This item can be shipped to Canada, all countries in Europe, United States.These legends of the Apollo era say the most important ingredient of the moon landing was not the technology, though it was one of the greatest bursts of engineering in human history, but the management, national commitment and personal motivation of the participants. The seller is “bluesurfjam” and is located in Stouffville, Ontario. This item is in the category “Consumer Electronics\TV, Video
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