alt Hacker NewsI'm always amazed at how you could fly to the Moon with such basic controls. The Apollo capsule controls compared to the Dragon controls really feels like the difference between a Wright Flyer and a modern glass cockpit airplane.
I'm always amazed at how you could fly to the Moon with such basic controls. The Apollo capsule controls compared to the Dragon controls really feels like the difference between a Wright Flyer and a modern glass cockpit airplane.
It is. At the same time I am at least as impressed with the antique people that went all over the globe in leaky (and by modern standards tiny) buckets.
They all share the same drive to discover the unknown and it still saddens me that we stopped at the moon (though I understand how it happened). We could have been all over the solar system by now, the cost would be phenomenal and it would still be extremely dangerous but definitely a possibility if mankind would pull in the same direction for a while. I suspect we were/are at a local maximum of sorts that precludes that from happening and the attractor is strong enough that we may never be able to escape from it.