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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You sure? The smell off some of the corpses will have been terrible.

I'm not saying they're all dead, but an intern at the time of launch would now be 70. Anybody who actually designed anything is... Well... The odds of them still being around are low.

[–] Flummoxed 6 points 7 months ago

I have a uncle who worked on Apollo writing machine code, and he is a spry, clear-headed 80-something-year-old.

[–] SpaceNoodle 5 points 7 months ago

IIRC, they did pull in a guy who had just started his career on the project.