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Originally Posted by troutman
I hope people remember Apollo 12 (November 14, 1969) and all the other Apollo missions, but people tend to only care about who did it first. Even at the time, interest really dropped off after Apoll0 11.
Every mission was an amazing engineering accomplishment and feat of bravery.
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12 might not get much press but 13 will/should. Getting those guys back after the accident was pretty remarkable given what they had to work with.
I’m still amazed any of these missions actually worked given the technical challenges and the tech of the time. As one of the guys interviewed in a documentary I watched semi joked, your fridge has more computing power in it.