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March 1965 Popular Electronics
Table of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
Popular Electronics,
published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
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As one who enthusiastically
followed the manned space program from its early days in the 1960's, reading news
stories and magazine articles on new technology and research never ceases to amaze
me. When China or Russia flies the next man to the moon, the level of fanfare will
be more focused on how the U.S. is no longer considered the leader than on how much
more improved technology is and how much lower the risk is. We now have over a million
total hours of men living in space versus a thousand or so in 1969. Semiconductors
have totally replaced vacuum tubes - with vastly better capability and ruggedness.
Mechanics and physics knowledge now versus then are barely comparable. Software
simulation predicts and optimizes virtually every possible scenario and compensates
for it. Autonomous spacecraft have landed safely on asteroids only a few miles across
at distances where radio communication takes half an hour to travel the distance
- not 1/4 of a second as with to the moon. To really get a good idea of how little
margin the Apollo 11 astronauts and their vehicle had, I recommend reading
Hanes' "Apollo 11 Workshop Manual."
See
also
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RCA Institutes
Home Training Ad,
Cleveland Institute of Electronics,
Coyne Electrical School,
National Radio Institute,
RCA Home
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