Space Revolution Ep. 21: Technology in History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but it Sure Does Rhyme - Pt 3
Part three of the technology-and-history series picks up where Matt Trump and Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast left off, and this time the theme is precision. Specifically, how a single mental leap, the demand for precise observation and measurement, built the bridge from medieval thought to the scientific revolution and eventually to a Saturn V on a launchpad.
Matt walks through Project Mercury and Gemini, the Volta do Mar as a sailing rhyme for the Artemis 2 free return trajectory, and the surprisingly underrated Ptolemaic system that ran the cosmos for 1,400 years. Then comes the trifecta…
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