This summer marked 50 years since man landed on the moon. At work, we have a monthly Beer & Tech session, which is something work-related and something not. I decided to bore the team on my love of the Apollo Space program. It wasn’t just the tech and computers around the program, but some of the principles they used and the legacy it left.

• Barbecue Mode
• Goal – Moon, Man, Decade
• Accelerating the growth of Information Technology
• Raising the bar for society “If we can put a man on the moon….”
• All up testing
• Women in important roles
• Rope Memory

Slides from the presentation.

Further reading/credits

• Apollo
• https://amzn.to/2QjbQZC
• First Man
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Man_(film)
• 13 Minutes to the moon – BBC Podcast (Excellent)
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2
• Chasing the moon – BBC
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0006vr4/chasing-the-moon
• Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Edition (Haynes Manuals)
• https://amzn.to/2M4tfzJ

Some of the video footage I used for the introduction to presentation

apollo space