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And that's why there never was a 'space race'...
Posted by Ivan303 on September 21, 2020 at 19:08:03:
at least as far as a manned landing on the moon.
The computer necessary for control of the lunar lander used chips made by Rockwell Semiconductor (they called them ELSIs or LSIs at the time) with 40 pins. The Soviets had no computer technology snall enough to fit inside a landing craft and the time delay between earth and the moon was too long for earthbound computers to be of any use.
Those Rockwell chips?
Shortly after the mood landing that technology, paid for by American Tax Dollars, was sold to the Japanese and came home to us as Sharp electronic calculators