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07-24-2014, 04:12 PM
http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/O97pML6uF6aAWA4RvsfM6A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/SPACE.com/Apollo_11%27s_Vintage_Tech_The-74a10956aa3f36dcf0a267008400831d (http://news.yahoo.com/apollo-11s-vintage-tech-most-amazing-moon-landing-194613672.html)The computing technology of the average cell phone far exceeds the combined computing power of the two spacecraft that got humans to the moon and home safely. The lunar module, for example, flew only twice with astronauts inside before Apollo 11. There were several modes of transportation that NASA could have chosen to take to the moon. For example, engineers could have launched two big rockets and then docked the various spacecraft and components in Earth orbit.



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