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Why we do this

Last Saturday, John Joseph Gavin passed away at the age of 90. [edit]the NY Times seems to have made an error in the article header, but corrected it in the headline and text[/edit]

More than 30 40 years ago, he was the leader of a NASA Grumman team that developed the Lunar Excursion Modules (LEMs) that carried astronauts to the moon's surface (and back) during several Apollo missions.



My favorite quotes:

“If a project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and exact schedule at the beginning,” Mr. Gavin told Technology Review. “And if you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.”

“There’s a certain exuberance that comes from being out there on the edge of technology, where things are not certain, where there is some risk, and where you make something work.”
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)

Last edited by Richard Wallace : 04-11-2010 at 12:28. Reason: added link, corrected some errors, thanks Ether
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