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Re:Why the SpaceX landing is Better than Apollo 11 by marvin on Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:30PM (#10794958)
The Apollo lunar landers had plenty of computer assistance, both for navigation, guidance and control during landing. E.g. to control the throttle during final descent so that the spacecraft didn't reach zero vertical velocity and start moving upwards again. The landings were much less automated than they would be today, but Apollo would have been vastly more difficult without computers.

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