Re:Why the SpaceX landing is Better than Apollo 11
by nickff on Saturday December 26, 2015 @01:18PM
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To be fair to the computer, it did all of the hard work. The LEM was probably not controllable by a human alone. Even when the commanders selected manual mode (as they did on all but one landing), they were really just controlling the outer loop of the LEM.
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Re:Why the SpaceX landing is Better than Apollo 11
by Tloewald on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @11:21PM
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It did all the work the way computers do all the work on jet planes today, yet pilots still made a big difference. Neil Armstrong saved Apollo 11 from catastrophe, flying the LEM by the seat of his spacesuit.