20 Nov 08 40 Years Since Moon Landing

It has been almost forty years since NASA sent the first man to the moon. In 1969 the integrated circuit had only recently been introduced, as is obvious by checking out the Saturn V guidance and control computer logic circuit board [photo 1] and the launch vehicle electronic analog control circuit board [photo 2].

Now, forty years later, we have more than 400 functional satellites in Earths orbit [graph 1]

and have sent Galileo to Jupiter, Viking to Mars, and have built a space station.

First Two Photos come from David Meerman Scott’s Blog

Tags: Apollo, Galileo, Jupiter, Mars, NASA, Saturn V, Viking