Frankly, every time that I watch the series, I get choked up. The dedication and bravery to make a mandate possible...
Yes, it was a political mandate, but it seemed to be more in my view.
More a quest to prove that it could be done. Never before has anything been undertaken quite like it. Perhaps the Manhatten Project would come close, but it did not have 400,000 people working together as one.
To me, it is totally amazing that it was done on the tools available: Slide rules and rudimentary computers.
They went to the moon on a computer that had a whopping 32K of memory if I remember correctly.
Most home appliances, cell phones (not to mention computers) have much more processing power than what they used to send Apollo to the Moon.
Truly an feat that will be remembered for all of history, at least I hope so.
Lesson for today is to remember that given a 'impossible' task that almost anything can be accomplished if you set the human mind free and believe.
I wish that in my lifetime, mankind will return to the greatness that was attained during Apollo and surpass it as we must.
If not, a true shame for all mankind....
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