Booster catch: I wonder how many decimal places it takes; in what I guess are millions of calculations; to make everything happen from launch through end results. And here's a thought for you -- at what point on the "space race" would all have come to a stop if the best calculations were humans with slide rules.
SpaceX doing another booster catch with their "chopsticks" is amazing. Hope we never grow immune to the wonder. There's a reason we use the terms "rocket science" and "brain surgery" to describe the hardest mental tasks.
Booster catch: I wonder how many decimal places it takes; in what I guess are millions of calculations; to make everything happen from launch through end results. And here's a thought for you -- at what point on the "space race" would all have come to a stop if the best calculations were humans with slide rules.
SpaceX doing another booster catch with their "chopsticks" is amazing. Hope we never grow immune to the wonder. There's a reason we use the terms "rocket science" and "brain surgery" to describe the hardest mental tasks.