To Infinity And Beyond
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Pioneer 11 wanted to go to a scientifically interesting part of saturn, probably like over the pole. When it got there, they're like, fine, you can get there first, but nassa said, you're going to be the cannon fodder to check it safe when we bring the expensive ones through. So pioneer 11 didn't get to do the interesting science dejectory. To do the e the history of space exploration was changed because very clever people at hp managed to work out how to do scientific proper trig and hyperbolic calculations in something the size of a typewriter. And him and his wife worked on this thing at home to build the very first prototype of
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