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An artist’s impression of a Galileo satellite in orbit 23,222 kilometres above the Earth. Credit: ESA/P. Carril Following…
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Scientists may have found the first moon beyond our solar system
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Monash University is partnering with the Australian Synchrotron and other key institutions to launch a $2.9 million national…
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The software that landed men on the Moon was not loaded onto the Apollo Guidance Computer so much as woven into it, with women at a Raytheon plant threading wire through or around thousands of tiny magnetic rings by hand, one pass for a one and one miss for a zero, until the whole program was a physical textile
The software that guided Apollo 11 towards the Moon did not reach its computer as an electronic download.…