Moon Landing on 64 Kilobytes

Your kitchen appliance is smarter than the tech that put humans on the moon. That microwave you

use for leftovers? More computing power than the entire Apollo program. The Apollo Guidance

Computer had 64 kilobytes of memory. Your digital watch has more than that. But this is the

computer that landed on the moon. So how did it work? Because NASA had no choice.

They had to make it perfect with almost nothing. Every line of code was handwritten.

Reviewed hundreds of times. Optimized to the extreme. Software that could

never crash. Never fail. Your microwave? Megabytes of memory just to heat up

soup. Here's the wildest part. They sent astronauts 240 thousand miles