Moon Machines

Moon Machines

The documentary was about all the way through of how USA reached to the moon. For this mission it was requeried the most advanced technoly and mathematicians that existed in this decade, computer science was an important part of this mission of course.

The most interesting thing for me was that computers in that time were not enabled of changing the computer calculation once the spaceship was launched, so the maths that allowed to machine to work were all programmed before the lanching and it was not posible to change it when the spaceship was out in space.

It is very amazing how many pieces had to intervine in this proccess and how everithing could go wrong if only just one of the pieces, as small as it could be,  did not make its job as it supose to do it.

I completely recognize de achivement of making all these work with the techonolgy of that decade.

Because the code had to be made by hand on perforated cards and the testing was really slow and sometimes calculations were not able to demostrate if they were right. And one coding error could lead the mission to a complete chaos or disaster.

 I consider that engiennres nowadays have a much more easy testing process, if we could code in the same way they did it,  because now an bug is detected very easily and it doesnt generates caotic consecuences, systems now would have much less errors that they usually have.

This mission made posible a big step on the computer history and thanks to all the research and innovation of these process many of our new computer programming technologies are how we know it today.

I consider that sometimes computer advanced not always are created for computer achivments, sometimes the goal to accomplish has nothing to do with the solutions, but it makes the engieniring to improve and innovate technology in order to make a solutions to the main goal.