Slide rule use in space

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(05-06-2016 01:59 PM)4ster Wrote:  ... but younger aeronautical engineer that went to school in the post slide rule era so he was not backing me up.

I'm not so young any more, but young enough to have studied aeronautical engineering without a slide rule (*), and more than willing to come to your rescue :-) They used slide rules - standard and special ones - on all space missions before the Shuttle (and I guess even then). The web is full of relevant sites, e.g. Aerospace related slide rules which contains this famous image of Buzz Aldrin and his slide rule onboard Apollo 11:



Best regards
Max


(*) About ten years after finishing university I treated myself to an ATPL (airline transport pilot license) and what surprise: The calculations during the theory classes and exams were all done on a slide rule...