>Hi All.
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>A friend sent me this picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics (which I'm just putting on one of our websites so you can see it and will remove it shortly):
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>http://www.timbukone.com/images/temp/homepc.jpg
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>Its good for a laugh to see how computer technology has changed. But I have a question - I realize its a model but does anyone know what the large steering wheel thing might have been used for?

Now if we compare how much the space flight technology changed in 50 years and what predictions were there 50 years ago, we might also laugh but in a different way. Considering for example that project Apollo and the new NASA proposals for the moon flight are essentially the same.

However it is amazing to see what unmanned spacecrafts can do these days.