Comment on One Expensive Mistake

valar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• esc@piefed.social@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Did they?

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    AFAIK no country on earth has brought humans to the moon since the Apollo missions ended, so no.

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  • Deckname@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well yes and no? Calculations were apparently done in metric units but operators were reading fantasy customary units.

    Although data was stored internally in metric units, they were displayed as United States customary units.

    Fom the Wikipedia Article for the Apollo Guidance Computer

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