XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: steveo@eircom.net   
      
   On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:33:21 GMT   
   Jan Panteltje  wrote:   
      
   > We went to the moon in the sixties of last century and came back   
   > with computing power less than a Raspberry.   
      
   	Hohmann worked out the details of travel around the solar system   
   using the computing power in his head and the storage afforded by a pencil   
   and paper. The computing requirements for space travel are not that large.   
      
   > Now astronuts  get stuck on the ISS with billions of dollars and sup[p]er   
   > computers to do the work.   
      
   	High quality engineering is a major requirement of space travel.   
   NASA in the sixties had an effectively infinite budget and a culture of   
   careful engineering going back to Edward Murphy of Murphy's law.   
      
   	Boeing are busy acquiring a reputation of careless engineering.   
      
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