The President's Space Initiative Speech

Tom

I've still got my Abacus and 'Slip Stick', Log Log Decitrig (sp), that
I can use when the energy runs out and we go back to the caves and
bear skins. Still have the instruction book to refresh operations. G

I take out every few years and run the slide to keep smooth for
precision operation.

Big John
Pilot RNAF


On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:51:56 -0700, "Tom Sixkiller"
wrote:


"Bob Noel" wrote in message
...
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.