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Re:The Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Spacecraft Design Then and Now by tobinfricke on Thursday July 18, 2019 @03:52PM (#20473330)
> It amazes me how young many of the people were.

Maybe not so different from startups today?

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Re:The Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Spacecraft Design Then and Now by dsfyu404ed on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:24PM (#20474047)
NASA wasn't a startup. It was (and is) a full blown government bureaucracy. The idea that there'd be a bunch of 20 and 30-somethings making critical decisions for a big organization like that is very foreign today.
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Re:The Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Spacecraft Design Then and Now by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:19PM (#20474485)
The NASA bureaucrats were used to 20-to-30 somethings making critical decisions during WW2 and Korea. There was much less of a culture of delayed adulthood as we have today.
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Re:The Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Spacecraft Design Then and Now by raverbashing on Friday July 19, 2019 @05:04AM (#20477150)
Actually I think it was much more streamlined than today

Also, bureaucratic BS usually melts when faced with pressure from above. (Though then you might have things like the Challenger disaster)

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