"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article . net,
"Mike Rapoport" wrote:


No, you have it backwards. The Apollo program happened when all
the
technologies were in place. It USED technology, same with the
space
shuttle.
[snip]
OK I'll accept that a lot was developed by the Apollo program but this
is
not what I think of when I think of NEW technology.

I think it comes down to what each of us understands "all
the technology were in place" to mean. I took it to be
roughly equivalent to the technology being mature. I gather
you meant something between that and brandnew stuff.

A little trivia (from the depths of memory): The on-board computers in
Apollo were obsolete by the time they flew the missions, and 2) the Space
Shuttle was designed and built using the old slab-sides sliderules.