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Originally Posted by AC/HL
The development of all the satellites involved in proving the various technologies involved would have been a lot slower using valves. We might have been getting those small steps any time now!
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Rocket tech was well established by the end of the war, but Sputnik didn't go up till 1957. That was the trigger. The Yanks put a man on the Moon within 12 years.
The technical advances needed to achieve this political feat would have still happened, even if the Apollo computer turned out the size of a refrigerator.