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Apollo 11 - NASA's Lunar Lander space vehicle, with the crew Neil
Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins carried slide rules,
for the first time in history, into space and onto the moon, July,
1969. The slide rule of choice was the aluminum pocket
Pickett 600-T Dual base Log Log.

http://sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Class/OS-ISRM_SlideRuleSeminar.pdf

“We went to the moon with slide
rules,
” retiree Norman Chaffee, who
worked on the spacecraft propulsion
system,
“I didn’t even have my first
full-function calculator until 1972."

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