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Originally Posted by Robert
As exciting as watching the early Apollo flights. Do we realize what has been accomlished and in how many different ways this could have gone wrong? Amazing! I was surprised the images were as clear as they were.
good work NASA, JPL.
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I remember reading a book by Michael Collins the Apollo Astronaut. In it he was talking about the lift off and pressing the buttons to release the first stage. He said there were close to a million individual components in the first stage, any of which would kill them if it failed at the wrong time and the sense of relief felt as the stage fell away.
At that point there were a million less things to worry about, and only five million other things left.
08-06-2012, 07:13 AM
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