I never knew and got curious and looked it up. I guess it makes more sense than slamming your testicals against the wall.

  • Captain Aggravated
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    1920 hours ago

    You will hear Apollo astronauts occasionally say “all balls” or “five balls.” After performing maneuvers, they would check their trajectory by taking fixes on stars using the telescope/sextant, this data would be fed into the guidance computer, which would compute their deviation from their intended course. If they were perfectly on their intended course, it would display a variation of 00000. “All balls.” Perfectly accurate.