Neil deGrasse Tyson said that if the Earth was the size of a typical classroom globe then the moon would be 30 feet away in the next room
Think about how crazy far that is
And a tiny little American spacecraft traversed that great distance
Hard to wrap my mind around that feat
Think about how crazy far that is
And a tiny little American spacecraft traversed that great distance
Hard to wrap my mind around that feat
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That spacecraft, in this example, is about the size of a speck of dust
Traveling that 30 feet under it’s own power
Back in 1969
Barely any computing capacity
It’s an awesome achievement