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Apollo 11 50th Anniversary
07-25-2019, 06:15 PM
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RE: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary
Hello!

I just saw that Chris Kraft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C._Kraft_Jr.), one of the protagonists of the NASA moon program, died just one day after the 50th anniversary. That is certainly not a coincidence. He was a very important organiser in the backround who is seldom shown in all those documentaries.

And yes, the smartphone - and sohisticated microelectronics in general - are usually said to be spinoffs of the space program. But that is not true. We would have all that without the space race as well. Maybe two years later.

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Max
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