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Old 7th Dec 2014, 13:12
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wiggy
 
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That's a bit of a stretch to try to suggest that a human was all that was needed to solve the landing issues.

Maybe but there certainly wasn't a cat in Hades chance of the "computer" solving it.. so it's back to the likes of Armstrong using Mark 1 eyeball and experience to decide to redesignate the LM touchdown spot on Apollo 11 when it was discovered all the computing power and Ph.D's at NASA couldn't really predict the effect of Mascon's and the effect of the undocking manoeuvre on the LM State vector. Yes, we're well over 40 years on from that event but we still haven't got technology that think out of the box, "recognise" a good secondary landing spot and re-designate to it.

As I see it we are back to that problem about computers, problem solving and decisions yet again....
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