"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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To you, perhaps. Not to the rest of us thinking individuals who've been
around since before the Apollo days. We recall that the first manned
mission outside the earth's atmosphere required a literal army of the best
minds in the world.


Well, the best minds in the USSR anyway.



It required the invention of enormously powerful
computers (with up to 16kb of RAM!) that could actually fit into a
suitcase-sized compartment.


Interesting. Can you tell us more about Soviet computer technology of that
era?



Only men with the "right stuff" as well as an
entire country behind them could participate.

Now? A few engineer-types in a warehouse out in the dessert are seriously
contemplating doing what, to me, still seems impossible . . . And may
still prove to be.


Impossible? How can you consider it impossible if it's already been done?

Those that are doing it today are using the knowledge that was gained by the
pioneering efforts over forty years ago.



I'd call that "historic" but then, I'm not an idiot.


Yes you are.