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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by m4rtink on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:38AM (#45668144)
Sure, but compare density of a s360 mainframe and the Apollo Guidance Computer - they pumped a lot of money into integrated circuits just as they weee becoming viable to hit their size, mass and power targets.

Sure, this would likely have happend anyway, but possibly later with all related knock off effects.

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by bluGill on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:53AM (#45668328)
> Sure, this would likely have happend anyway, but possibly later with all related knock off effects.

What are we missing because they did that though? Or what came latter? There is no way to answer this. It is easy to see what happened because of effort, but not what you didn't get (or got latter) because to focused on something else.

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