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MannyGoldstein

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14. A good friend of mine, now deceased, was at NASA from

Reply to pokerfan (Reply #9)

Tue Jul 28, 2015, 06:22 PM

Jul 2015

before the first astronauts were selected through the end of Apollo. One day I asked him how the @#$& they could go from a tiny suborbital flight to landing on the Moon in just 8 years.

"Checklists and simulations" was his immediate answer.

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I imagine he did! A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 #17

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I assumed digital fly by wire MannyGoldstein Jul 2015 #24

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My Grandmother, Moms mom, worked at Boeing in California in WW2. oneshooter Jul 2015 #15

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