1961 - Liberty Bell 7 _ Gus did not screw the pooch

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I saw that capsule when it was on display at the science museum in OKC some years ago.
No computer on board, everything was mechanical. They showed a fancy egg timer time of device with a plastic arm to turn off something (fuel to a rocket motor, I think ???) after so many seconds. NASA just had the timer cocked back to so many seconds and when time was up the plastic arm flipped a switch.
 

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I saw that capsule when it was on display at the science museum in OKC some years ago.
No computer on board, everything was mechanical. They showed a fancy egg timer time of device with a plastic arm to turn off something (fuel to a rocket motor, I think ???) after so many seconds. NASA just had the timer cocked back to so many seconds and when time was up the plastic arm flipped a switch.
I got a good look at it when it was in the Cosmosphere. They also had Apollo 1.
 

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I saw that capsule when it was on display at the science museum in OKC some years ago.
No computer on board, everything was mechanical. They showed a fancy egg timer time of device with a plastic arm to turn off something (fuel to a rocket motor, I think ???) after so many seconds. NASA just had the timer cocked back to so many seconds and when time was up the plastic arm flipped a switch.
What, no computer? How could that be?
 

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I saw it there as well
What did you think of the Cosmosphere? For such a small town with hardly any aerospace industry anymore it is very impressive. I installed and maintained the fire and burg alarms there. Quite a challenge with the shape of that building and the stuff in the way like the LEM and the SR71. We had to paint the wires up in the ceiling black or red or white or whatever we ran across.
 


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