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small shoe box size. and all of us have that on this computer but to get them to successfully land on the moon. and they did it. i was a reporter for cape canaveral many years ago covering the hubble space scope. and the vehicle you that mention said so gigantic. the shuttles are relatively small in the building compared to being built for the saturn 5 rocket. when the actual blast happened, where were you standing in the press area with other news reporters? well, that s where we started out. but a friend and i, we took a special bus to what s called the vip area. nasa had invited over 5,000 guests from all different walks of life to dot launch. ranging from former president lyndon johnson and his wife lady
which was very impressive then, although it seems quite primitive now. one of the surprising things to me, in retrospect, was how we were able to get to the moon with relatively primitive technology. right. i was going to ask you about that. because looking back, and you think of that achievement, no one probably in 2019 would recognize the technology and the computers that they used to do this feat. right. well, one of the positive benefits of the space program has been that it spawned the whole computer industry. the smallest computers then, before project apollo were the size of three or four refrigerators. and they had to develop a small computer to guide the lunar module to land on the moon. so they developed something equaled the apollo guidance computer. which was this small kind of a
the apollo guidance computer, to use just one example, was the first real-time interactive computer that was portable. you could send that to the moon and back. it helps give the astronauts down and off the lunar surface. so nasa put human lives on the back of this computer. and that started the revolutionary small desktop computer revolution that we are still enjoying today. every laptop in every tablet and every phone, it s a direct descendants of that computer. it s one example of the technology developed. to get us to the moon, they are still affecting our lives today. harris: the president says we should return to the moon soon, and also plans an american flag on mars. with the current state of where our space programs are now, is that possible? it s technically possible. to do it in five years, and to get astronauts to the moon by 2024. but it will require extra funding for nasa paid their top line right now is about $21 billion a year. they need to go up to $23 billion or $2
ago today, apollo 11 s eagle landed on the moon and neil armstrong became the first person to walk the lunar surface. that s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. that brings me to my question of the week. approximately how much more memory does apple s iphone 5s have compared with the apollo guidance computer? a, 100,000 times more. b, 624,000 more. c, 1.8 million times more. d, 5.4 million times more. stay tuned. this week s book of the week is higher edge nation the digital age. one of the few places where the information revolution has not improved productivity or reduced costs is higher education. but that is all about to change with the rise of online