>Yes. Well I have already presented my thoughts on NASA's flight
>safety record. You only have to consider the amount of computing
>power they had on board the Apollo missions. How they managed
>that program with that era's technology is truly impressive.

IIRC the track to and from the moon was pre-calculated, and they had to make
periodic course corrections to stay inside the "tube" of the pre-calculated
flight path. If they managed to get outside there was no computer fast
enough to calculate the necessary corrections to get them back onto the
correct path. This was not just the machines on Apollo, but the biggest and
best on "mother earth" as well were just not fast enough in processing
power.

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