• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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    The guys that went to the moon were engineers and highly trained to use the computer. We can dream to have users half as competent.

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      After separating from the Command Modupe for lunar descent, there was a faulty abort switch discovered on the Apollo 14 lunar module that required Alan Shephard and Edgar Mitchell to reprogram the lunar module computer in lunar orbit.