159 Elon - "Only 66 years from first flight to landing on the Moon in 1969. Here we are, 76 years later cannot yet return to the Moon. We should have been on Mars by now." (twitter.com) posted 1 year ago by purkiss80 1 year ago by purkiss80 +159 / -0 67 comments share 67 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Here's the part that gets me.
No fancy flight simulators to practice with.
About 20 practice tries with the flying bedstead (crashed one of them) ---- so, practicing with the wrong Earth gravity.
OK ---- and the final Lunar approach had no computer, was done by hand. Nails it.
I would like to see a virtual version of this and see if a video game virgin could do this with only 20 practice tries.
No noticiing stuff like that.....
1979 video game lunar lander, some were good at it, others not so good,, I liked Choplifter helicopter game rescuing stick figure hostages c. ‘85
Wow, you just brought back a bunch of memories.
my mother tossed my dad’s apple 2, but I still have a Loderunner diskette. the stick figure games with whirrs and whizzes sound effects are fun memories!