50 years ago tonight

[89th]

Side note, did you know Gene Kranz (flight director, aka Ed Harris in the movie) was only 36 years old during Apollo 13 (and was 35 for Apollo 11)?

Not a bad resume for being in your mid 30s.

[Rainman]

What bothers me, is I just don't remember it.
I think I must have had a girlfriend at the time.
That explains a lot.

[Axtremus]

@89th said in 50 years ago tonight:

"iPhones have over 100,000 times more processing power than the Apollo 11 computer; with 4GB of RAM they have over a million times more memory, and with 512GB of storage they have over seven million times more storage."

And we use the iPhone for things like TNCR.
Apollo 11's computer would not have been able to handle TNCR.

[jon-nyc]

That video is totally worth the 30 minutes

[Copper]

@89th said in 50 years ago tonight:

Side note, did you know Gene Kranz (flight director, aka Ed Harris in the movie) was only 36 years old during Apollo 13 (and was 35 for Apollo 11)?

Not a bad resume for being in your mid 30s.

I think it was the industry.

The commercial computer/DP/IT industry grew out of the same technology a few years later.

So nobody had decades of experience. A few years experience was good enough for seniority. That is the environment I started in, the senior people were maybe in their 30s.

[taiwan_girl]

@wtg

Thanks. I started to watch it. Seems very interesting!!

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago tonight:

That video is totally worth the 30 minutes

Agreed!

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/us/ken-mattingly-death-apollo-astronaut-scn/index.html

Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced

“Perhaps his most dramatic role at NASA was after exposure to rubella just before the launch of Apollo 13,” Nelson said. “He stayed behind and provided key real-time decisions to successfully bring home the wounded spacecraft and the crew of Apollo 13 – NASA astronauts James Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise.”

[George K]

RIP Spaceman.

[Copper]

I saw TK Mattingly was speak at the Air & Space museum. As you might expect his presentation was well done, obviously he was highly intelligent and competent.

RIP Astronaut Mattingly