Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...

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The following article was written by Tom Robinson, collectSPACE.com contributor.When NASA's Apollo spacecraft launched to the moon, it had on board two briefcase-size computers that for their day ...