My husband, repeatedly: “How can they do this? How can it be so precise??”

SCIENCE. Publicly funded science.

April 11, 2026 - 00:08 UTC

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math, bitches!

(Breaking Bad ref)
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The math involved is mind boggling.

Not to slight the present day NASA but the Apollo program did it with pencil, paper, and slide rules. Blows my mind how precise it all was.
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@hankgreen.bsky.social dropped a banger of a quote the other day that has really stuck with me. "It is not that we're late now, it is that we were early then. The fact that we were able to go to the moon with 1960s technology is unfathomable." youtu.be/oaXRREHVkHo?t=1643
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I mean, it is honestly astounding how good we are at orbits and trajectories. They're so pretty.
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It’s mind boggling.
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“Four healthy crew members.” Beautiful words.
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Hale and hardy!
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also... very simple and focused unlike most of life!
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It probably helped that they didn't have to depart via airport with TSA & ICE.
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And the first space shots did it with a computer similar to a small calculator.... 😮
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He would enjoy the film HIDDEN FIGURES (currently on HBOMax). The answer to his question is an important part of the plot.

Did a rewatch of it this week. It’s even better than when it came out a decade ago.
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Meanwhile SpaceX struggling to do a simple liftoff that NASA did 6 decades ago without showering adjacent towns with debris
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Hopefully we stop funding SpaceX before they get around to the lunar lander. Seems a shame to go all the way to the moon just to disprove market fundamentalism.
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And on time! Better than your commercial flight!
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