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For what? They used state of the art technology for the time, but their landing computer had less memory than today's digital watches. The vehicle had to be as light as possible, so the computer they used could only check and verify their position in space. The real guidance computer was located in a building at the Johnson Space Center, in Houston, where the astronauts lived and trained. All they did on the way to the moon was take star readings with a 60x sextant. They entered the star's location in their computer, which told them where they were in space. Since 3 lives were at stake, there was a lot of redundancy built into the system. That redundancy saved the Apollo 13 crew.

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