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		kalleboo on July 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? (2009) I thought it was mostly rocket science? (calculating trajectories in advance, on supercomputers on the ground)

RBerenguel on July 19, 2013 [–]

Super...what? Actually, I asked my teacher on celestial dynamics how to determine a good trajectory to get "somewhere." The answer? "Clicking." So you just keep trying different solutions until you find it, or something close enough and then numerically optimise the solution.

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