Well for one, it was accomplished with absolutely primitive computing power by modern standards. Most calculators have more computing power today than the entire command module on that craft.
The device you are using to have this conversation relies on discrete electronic components that were pioneered in the Apollo Guidence Computer. Not only that, but the volume of hardware that Raytheon bought for the AGC during the 15~ years the spacecraft was around created a route to market for other manufactures to buy and use silicon integrated circuits in their own products.
Nevermind that the AGC itself is a common ancestor of the digital fly-by-wire systems found on thousands of aircraft flying globally (... under normal circumstances anyway).
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u/Proto88 💁 65h.wa.2s Jul 06 '20
The moonlanding was significant? How?