I have been watching the Apollo.stuff on History channel and Sci-Fi. Three things have stuck with me.

1. The Saturn V burned 15 tons of fuel a second and generated over 1.5 million hp.

2. They had a manual override so if the evidence went out the commander could fly it manually.

3. The fuel was so corrosive that the.engines had to be.entirely rebuilt after each test. Think about that for a second. The engines that went to space were never tested after they were rebuilt.

The whole thing is bloody amazing when you think about it. Strap your self to a 300ft rocket. Fly for 3 days and 240,000 miles. Land on a satellite that no one has ever been to. Stroll around a bit. Blast off the moon and rendezvous with the command module. Fly back another 3 days and 240,000 miles to get to this little blue marble. Crash into the atmosphere and hope the heat shield that has not been tested either. Then parachute to the ocean.

All this was built and designed by nerds with slide rules and calculators with exponentially less power than the cell I am typing this on.

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