Moon Machines

The race to the moon just began after the second world war, the world giants were facing off (United States of America and the Soviet Union, east versus west) - The Cold War. This is translated to a competition in which both sides are involved in a confrontation with various branches: political, social, military, scientific and economic. But from all of these, let us focus in the scientific part (even though in the video you can dive under the surface to understand whydecisions were made and you relate those scientific advancements with political and social matters).

This was quite an instructional and interesting video. There are a couple of sections I enjoyed but the most likable - in my humble opinion - was when they were explaining IBM's gyroscope technology to have a reference as to where were they, I find this the most clever and genius way to implement a solution as they attacked on all fronts: budget, space, simplicity.

As an addition, I find honorable and respectable how IBM was so sure their technology would work so they blindly-ish (sic) trusted it on their flight to California, flying all across the United States.

A phrase I remember, and I can empathize specifically was when it was told that “walking in the moon was easy compared to landing the Apolo on its surface” (not exactly their words to be honest).

Why do I empathize with it? Because sometimes in our everyday lives we think that X is such a hard task/goal/objective but not really… personally, I find that the way to achieve X is n-times more complicated, most of the time (if lucky) we know where we want to get to, but have no idea of how to get there. All these men/women who got one of mankind’s greatest achievements are infinitely admirable as they just do what it takes, they proposed something and they got it (let’s forget the why’sand let’s just focus on the how’sand what’s: 

-      Why – many political, social, etc reasons

-      How and what – achieve landing in the moon and going back to Earth safely with their crew.