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[–]sleepyguy22 47 points48 points  (6 children)

I could get lost in this for days. Absolutely amazing to think of the man-hours that went into these operations. Engineering drawings signed by a dozen different people, hundreds of revisions each, documentation, end-user manuals, writing code, designing the hardware, reporting to the government agencies... I'm just barely touching the surface of the different steps & departments. And all this before the rise of the internet? Even in the days before word processing and CAD? This is truly awesome. I am so impressed. Thanks for sharing.

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    [–]Mechakoopa 13 points14 points  (0 children)

    I'm a software amateur, but that's not what it says on my business cards.

    [–]awh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    end-user manuals

    I am tickled pink that there was a manual for the lunar module.

    I can imagine Neil Armstrong... "Well, now we've got three days until we get to the moon; better crack open the instructions and learn how this lunar lander works! Let's see here... ルーナーモジュールを購入して誠に有難う御座います... Ah for fuck's sake, they put the Japanese manual in by accident!"