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aqilzakwan

6 years ago

This is the Apollo Lunar Module (LM). It was designed to carry two pilots from lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back. The LM is a lot bigger than I thought it would be. Did you know that the Apollo guidance computers (AGC) had only 4 kilobytes of RAM? And only 32 kb of memory. Our smartphones have exponentially more processing power than the machines that literally took us to the moon. ---- #nationalairandspacemuseumsmithsonian #smithsonian #lunarmodule #moonlanding #washingtondc #usatrip #thesideksamericanadventure #throwback #funfacts #biggerthanitlooks (at National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnwwTrgHgjn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l5fn92cjxacw