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Subj: Apollo 11 Slide Rule
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Apollo 11 - NASA's Lunar Lander space vehicle, with the crew Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, carried slide rules, for the first time in history, into space and onto the moon, July, 1969. The slide rule of choice was the aluminum pocket Pickett 600-T Dual base Log Log. "We went to the moon with slide rules," retiree Norman Chaffee, who worked on the spacecraft propulsion system, "I didn't even have my first full-function calculator until 1972." Note: When you watch the movie Apollo 13 look for the engineers using slide rules
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